A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spiritous liquors.

  • Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.
Date:
1733
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A friendly admonition to the drinkers of brandy, and other distilled spiritous liquors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and narrow the Blood-Veffels ,• which has, in Fad, been found to be true, by Experiments purpofely made, with Bran¬ dy, on the Blood and Blood-veffels of Animals. Whence we may evidently fee the Reafon why thofe Liquors do fo fre¬ quently caufe Gbftrudions in the Liver $ whence the Jaundice, Dropfy, and many other fatal Difeafes : It is in like man¬ ner aifo that they defiroy and burn up the Lungs too ; Hence alfo it is, that by frequently contrading, and then foon after relaxing, they weaken and wear out the Fibres and Coates of the Sto¬ mach, on which they more immediately prey, every Time they are drunk: Hence, I fay, it is, that thefe fpirituous Liquors rarely fail to defiroy the Appe¬ tite and Digeftion of thofe, who habi¬ tuate themfelves, to them; for, by dry¬ ing up, and fpoiling the Nerves, they make them infenfible ,• they defiroy alfo many of the very fine Veffels, efpecially where the Fibres are mofl tender, as in the Brain ; whereby they fpoil the Me¬ mory and intellectual Faculties : And by thus inflaming the Blood, and di for der¬ ing the Blood-Veffels and Nerves, they vitiate and deprave the natural Tem¬ per. When