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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    ercise in the open air, proper hours for sleep, and a light and agreeable occupation of the mind, than under the use-of any kind of intoxicating drink, in any manner administered. Scrofula. In strumous constitutions, and un- der the local developments of scrofula, ardent spirit was formerly employed. But who, at this day, would think of placing it in competition with the preparations of iodine, employed at the hospi- tal of St. Louis in Paris, and in other places, joined with proper diet, bathing, frictions, exer- cise, air, &c.? : In the whole range of nervous diseases alcohol, Nervous dis. iN. any shape, is entitled to but very > limited confidence. It seems to be incapable of doing any thing better than to cause a transient alleviation, while its ultimate. effects are pernicious; with the exception perhaps of that state of the brain and nerves exemplified in trau- matic tetanus, which requires a narcotic influence. For this purpose the combinations of morphia, either internally given, or externally applied, especially to a blistered surface, are to be pre- ferred. A tonic or sustaining power in the treat- ment of this disorder may better be derived from _ the judicious use, in addition to the morphia, of some vegetable tonic, as the sulphate of quinia, joined perhaps with carbonate of ammonia, than from spirituous drinks. In inflammations, whether deep-seated or su- Inflamma- perficial, the vascular and nervous Gene irritations are usually observed to be increased by the use of alcoholic liquors, some- times a soothing effect is seen to follow the appli-