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Craving for Drink: Its Causes, Nature, Treatment, Curability (1883) Sylvanus Harris No preview available - 2008 |
Craving for Drink: Its Causes, Nature, Treatment, Curability (1883) Sylvanus Harris No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 28 - Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes : it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery : it makes him, and it mars him ; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him ; makes him stand to, and not stand to : in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him. Macd. I believe, drink gave thee the lie last night. Port....
Page 24 - I hanker too much after a state of happiness, both for myself and others ; I cannot face misery, whether my own or not, with an eye of sufficient firmness, and am little capable of encountering present pain for the sake of any reversionary benefit.
Page 11 - Frequently he mistakes one person for another, and imagines that some of those before him are individuals who are, in reality, absent, or even dead. The muscular powers are, all along, much affected: this indeed happens before any great change takes place in the mind,- and goes on progressively increasing. He can no longer walk with steadiness, but totters from side to side. The limbs become powerless, and inadequate to sustain his weight. He is, however, not always sensible of any deficiency in...
Page 62 - I could not refrain:" such statements abound in dipsomaniacs' mouths. Dr. Mussey of Cincinnati relates this case: "A few years ago a tippler was put into an almshouse in this State. Within a few days he had devised various expedients to procure rum, but failed. At length, however, he hit upon one which was successful. He went into the wood-yard of the establishment, placed one hand upon the block, aud with an axe in the other struck it off at a single blow.
Page 11 - The last stage of drunkenness is total insensibility. The man tumbles perhaps beneath the table, and is carried away in a state of stupor to his couch. In this condition he is said to be dead drunk. When the drunkard is put to bed, let us suppose that his faculties are not totally absorbed in apoplectic stupor ; let us suppose that he still possesses consciousness and feeling, though these are both disordered ; then begins " the tug of war ;" then comes the misery which is doomed to succeed his previous...
Page 27 - it is remarkable that all the diseases from drinking spirituous or fermented liquors are liable to become hereditary, even to the third generation, gradually increasing, if the cause be continued, till the family becomes extinct."* We need not endeavour to trace farther the remote causes of drunkenness.
Page 9 - ... is now perfect. As yet the sensorium is in tolerable order : it is only shaken ; but the capability of thinking with accuracy still remains. About this time the drunkard pours out all the secrets of his soul, his qualities, good or bad, come forth without reserve ; and now, if at any time, the human heart may be seen into.
Page 4 - ... poison written on it, she took it, and swallowed its contents. The wine, for such it had become, overpowered the lady, who fell down into a sound sleep, and awoke much refreshed.
Page 9 - By degrees he is sensible of a soft and not unmusical humming in his ears, at every pause of the conversation. He seems, to himself, to wear his head lighter than usual upon his shoulders. Then a species of obscurity, thinner than the finest mist, passes before his eyes, and makes him see objects rather indistinctly. The lights begin to dance and appear double. A gaiety and warmth are felt at the same time about the heart.
Page 10 - In the latter stages the speech is thick, and the use of the tongue iti a great measure lost. His mouth is half open and idiotic in the expression ; while his eyes are glazed, wavering, and watery. " He is apt to fancy that he has offended some one of the company, and is ridiculously profuse with his apologies ; frequently he mistakes one person for another, and imagines that some of those before him are individuals who are, in reality, absent or even dead. " The muscular powers are all along much...