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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    “! EFFECTS ON THE ANIMAL ECONOMY. 25 ,* found a considerable quantity of limpid fluid, dis- tinctly impregnated with gin, both to the sense of smell and taste, and even to the test of inflam- mability. The liquid appeared to the senses of the examining students, as strong as one-third gin to two-thirds water.* Another case in point is related by Dr. Ogston. He says, ‘ that on the 23d of August, 1831, he ex- amined, in company with another medical man, the body of a woman aet. 40, who was believed to have drowned herself in a fit of intoxication no one having witnessed the act.? *We found,’ says he, ‘nearly four ounces of fluid in the ventricles of the brain, having all the physical qualities of alcohol, as proved by the united testimony of two other medical men who saw the body opened and examined the fluid. The sto- mach also smelt of this fluid.? That spirit exists in the circulation is obvious, from the fact of its being present in many cases in the breath, after its entire removal from the stomach jt as is shown by a careful examination of its contents, dis- charged by vomiting, or through the aid of the stomach pump. Does spirit pass into the circulation by the route of lacteal absorption? It has been indubitably established by a great variety of experiments,t{ that numerous articles, some of them slowly, others expeditiously, may be imbibed directly by the walls or coats of the blood vessels, and thus * Cook on nervous diseases. —Hare.on the stomach. + Ogston. + Made by Magendie, Fodera, Dutrachet, Coates, Law- rence, and others.