Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly.

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1835
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Credit: Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t fit is sometimes short-lived, continuing only a few hours, or a day or two; while in other cases it will last for.two or three weeks, or even longer. - [tin general attacks confirmed drunkards only, and usually comes on after a debauch of. several days’ continuance. It sometimes commences with loss of appetite, lassitude, and frequent rigors. The pulse is feeble and increased in frequency, and the body is covered with a clammy sweat. Sleep seldom blesses the unhappy victim with its . presence, and where it does it is of a disturbed and frightful character. The most fantastic or the most horrid dreams disturb and affright him. Musce volitantes, or objects still more annoying, and even terrific, are constantly floating before his disordered vision. Heis in the greatest afilic- tion about his own affairs, which he thinks are in the most chaotic disorder; and he not unfre- quently imagines that those around him, and par- ticularly his most intimate friends, are engaged in a conspiracy todefraud and ruinhim. After con- tinuing in this state for a period, which varies from a few hours to several days, the patient will frequently sink into a profound sleep, from which he will awake perfectly sane, and scarcely recol- lecting any thing that had occurred during his illness. It sometimes however proves fatal, and at others ends in permanent madness, or confirmed idiocy. 12. Melancholy. No idea is a more mistaken one than to ima- gine the drunkard a happy, or even a merry man,