On the Insanity of Inebriety: Read Before the New York Neurological Society, Oct. 5, 1874F.W. Christern, 1874 - 25 pagina's |
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Pagina 16 - Get some rum ! get some rum ! my hand is off. ' In the confusion and bustle of the occasion a bowl of rum was brought, into which he plunged the bleeding member of his body ; then raising the bowl to his mouth, drank freely, and exultingly exclaimed, ' Now I am satisfied ! '
Pagina 15 - An instance of insensibility to the last, in an habitual drunkard, occurred some years ago in Philadelphia. When strongly urged, by one of his friends, to leave off drinking, he said, ' Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were a cannon constantly discharging balls between me and it, I could not refrain from passing before that cannon in order to get at the rum.
Pagina 15 - Another, whose case he quotes, replied to the remonstrances of his friend, who painted the distresses of his family, the loss of his business and character, and the ruin of his health, " my good friend, your remarks are just ; they are indeed too true ; but I can no longer resist temptation. If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand, and the pit of hell yawned at the other, and I were convinced that I would be pushed in as sure as I took one glass, I could not refrain.
Pagina 15 - Within a few days he had devised various expedients to procure rum, but failed. At length, however, he hit upon one which was successful. He went into the wood-yard of the establishment, placed one hand upon the block, and with an axe in the other struck it off at a single blow. With the stump raised and streaming he ran into the house and cried, ' Get some rum ! get some rum ! My hand is off...
Pagina 11 - I shall add one more, and that is, the establishment of a hospital in every city and town in the United States, for the exclusive reception of hard drinkers. They are as much objects of public humanity and charity, as mad people. They are indeed more hurtful to society, than most of the deranged patients of a common hospital would be, if they were set at liberty.
Pagina 15 - A friend of the subject of it, painted to him "the distresses of his family, the loss of his business and character, and the ruin of his health, " to which he replied, "My good friend, your remarks are just; they are indeed -too true ; but I can no longer resist temptation. If a bottle of brandy stood at one hand, and the pit of hell yawned at the other, and I were convinced that I would be pushed in as sure as I took one glass, I could not refrain.
Pagina 23 - The result of this experience has been the fullest conviction, that a large proportion of the intemperate, in a well-conducted institution, would be radically cured, and would again go into society with health re-established, diseased appetites removed, with principles of temperance well grounded and thoroughly understood, so that they would be afterwards safe and sober men.
Pagina 12 - Obviously as these pathological changes are the effect of a long-continued voluntary habit, there is strong evidence in favor of the idea that they, in turn, become efficient causes, and act powerfully in maintaining this habit, even in spite of the resistance of the will.
Pagina 11 - is at first the effect of free agency. From habit it takes place from necessity. That this is the case, I infer from persons who are inordinately devoted to the use of ardent spirits being irreclaimable, by all the considerations which domestic obligations, friendship, reputation, property, and sometimes even by those which religion and the love of life can suggest to them.
Pagina 16 - Turner relates a case of a gentleman, who while under treatment for inebriety, during four weeks secretly drank the alcohol from six jars containing morbid specimens.