An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness, and its effects on the human body / by Thomas Trotter, M.D.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1804
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Credit: An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness, and its effects on the human body / by Thomas Trotter, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ** forgetive, full of rumble, fiery, and deleft- able fliapes : which delivered over to the voice (the tongue), which is the birth, be- comes excellent wit. The fecond property of your excellent fherries is, the warm- *' ing of the blood ; which before, cold and fettled, left the liver white and pale ; which ** is the badge of pufillanimity and cowardice t *' but the fherries warms it, and makes it courfe from the inwards to the parts ex- *' treme. It illumineth the face ; which, as a beacon, gives warning to all the reft of this *' little kingdom man, to arm : and then the vital commoners, and inland petty fpirits, *^ mufter me all to their captain the heart 5 *^ who great, and puffed up with this retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour *' comes of iherries : fo that fkill in the wea- *' pon is nothing without fack ; for that fets *' it a work; learning a mere hoard of gold ** kept by a devil, til! fack commences it and *^ fets it in ad and ufe. Hereof comes it that prince Harry is valiant; for the cold hlaod *^ he did naturally inherit of his father, he *^ hath, like lean, fterile, and bare land, ma- nured, hufbanded, and tilledj with excellent 4 / *' endeavour