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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    is but imperfectly supplied with notrishment. Numerous chronic diseases, with melancholy and madness in their train, put in their claim for a re- sidence in the decaying organs of the body; and when acute forms of disease, as thoracic inflamma- tion and pestilential fever make an attack, the work of ruin, thus begun and prosecuted by al- cohol, is completed by death. In deep drunkenness there is lethargy and stupor, the face is often pale, some- Paysite times flushed, very rarely livid and of © drunken- swollen, and still more rarely natural.* *°* The breathing is generally slow, sometimes stertorous or laborious, seldom rapid or calm. The respiratory movements are chiefly or whol- ly abdominal ; the separate acts of inspiration and expiration, particulat ly the former, occupying but a short time. The puffing of the cheeks as in apoplexy exceedingly rare. The extremities are almost invariably cold; the pulse feeble and slow, and not unfrequently imperceptible; the pupil generally dilated, though sometimes contracted.’ * Dr. Ogston’s cases. i Remedies for a fit of intoxication. 1. Dislodge the spirit from the stomach by emetics aid- ed by pressure upon the pit of the stomach, or by the use of the stomach pump. ' 2. Sometimes inject warm water to dilute the glairy mucus, or to distend this organ to the point of action, - when not sufficiently distende =d by its contents. 3. Cold affusion to the head, especially when the head is hot. 4. The vigorous and persevering application of a cow- _ skin whip, or of small rods to the gluteal eminences. This last is a most effectual remedy in rousing the op- pressed energies of the brain and nerves.