Temperance prize essays / By Drs. Mussey and Lindsly.

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

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    to strengthen his digestive powers, and increase his appetite. So delicate an organ as the stomach cannot with safety be loaded with so powerful a stimulus, and especially when in a state of suba- cute inflammation, as is frequently the case in dyspepsia. Independantly therefore of the immi- nent danger of the patient’s becoming addicted to habits of intemperance, the advice too fre- quently given, I am afraid even by physicians, to drink brandy and water cannot be too strongly deprecated on account of its immediate effects on the system itself. Where any thing in this dis- ease of a more stimulant nature than tonics and bitters is required, good wine is much preferable to ardent spirits, and no doubt even this is pre- scribed much more frequently than is necessary. 2. In low Typhoid states of the System. Where the strength has been exhausted, and a low typhoid state has come on, after a long-con- tinued fever, it is a very general impression among the profession that a stimulus of a different nature from the ordinary tonics and bitters is required to quiet the irritable and frequent pulse, to clear the black and coated tongue, and to resuscitate the exhausted energy of the body. .In this peculiar state most medical men have been in the habit of using alcohol very freely in the form of wine or brandy. But, surely, when we consider the great number, and vast variety of stimulants furnished by the materia medica, we can hardly believe.that amongst all these it would not be possible to select