The disease of inebriety from alcohol, opium, and other narcotic drugs : its etiology, pathology, treatment and medico-legal relations / arranged and compiled by the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety.

  • American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety.
Date:
1893
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The disease of inebriety from alcohol, opium, and other narcotic drugs : its etiology, pathology, treatment and medico-legal relations / arranged and compiled by the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    54/398 (page 54)
    the lieart, with calculi of gall duct and bladder were given. The circulation was weak, and the intellect un- steady. A capricious, irregular appetite accomj^nying these conditions often forecasts inebriety, and generally precedes violent attacks. A Syphilitic Diathesis and Cachexia are known by temporary headaches, amaurosis and flying pains, with mental and moral defects of various grades ; anaemia and affections of the heart are often present. This, with a clear syphilitic history, are evidences beyond ques- tion. In this, diathesis inebriety or insanity develops from the least exciting causes. There is a Hemorrhagic Diathesis and Cachexia, which is characterized by anaemia, blood deficient in fibrin, suffering from persistent neuralgias, and a constant tendency to copious hemorrhage from the slight- est causes. Inebriety often follows from this condition. Two cases have fallen under my notice where this diathesis ended in uncontrollable drunkenness and death. A Fibri- nous Diathesis and cachexia may be the active cause of ine- briety by the constant tendency of the blood to exudations of unhealthy plasma, and general hypertrophy and indura- tion of the cerebral system, all tiie functions being lan- guidly performed. In all these cases the normal equili- brium of the nutritive functions is destroyed, and inebriety follows as the first stage of degeneration. These are some of the many conditions of the body coming down from in- heritance, well marked, and so often preceding this affec- tion, as to be called active and predisposing causes. These conditions are not always distinct, but blend into each other, multiplying and diverging.