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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    \ ees . ma EFFECTS ON THE ANIMAL ECONOMY. —19 sf é CHAPTER II. Effects of Ardent Spirit upon the animal economy. Tue first effeet of ar dent spirit upon the living fibre is Stimulating. This has been observed on its application to the web of the foot of a frog. By the aid of the microscope, it appeared that the blood in the small vessels circulated, for a short time, more rapidly than before. Rubbed upon the human skin, or snuffed into the nostr ils im ‘the ‘form of liquid or of vapor, it augments the sen- sibility and quickens the circulation upon the sur- faces with which it is brought in contact... Taken into the stomach in a concentrated state, it instan- taneously occasions a burning pain. When swallowed in a state sufficiently di- luted, it throws through the stomach pon the a elow or grateful ere which'in stomach. many cases is transmitted to the remote organs of the body. ‘The brain and the nerves of the senses partake in the exhilaration. The eye glis- tens, the hearing is more acute, the colloquial powers are exalted, and the expressions of the countenance are vivid and emphatic, changing in quick succession, in conformity with Pesta, dakeds: the rapidly shifting topics of conver- sation, denoting that the movements of the mind are led by the influence of its more remote and capricious associations. As the alcoholic excitation increases, the pas-