382 NATURAL HISTORY. 



use may be made of the observation, that, evermore, 

 the spirits, in all passions, resort most to the parts that 

 labour most, or are most affected. As in the last 

 which hath been mentioned, they resort to the eyes 

 and venereous parts : in fear and anger to the heart : 

 in shame to the face : and in light dislikes to the 

 head. 



Experiments in consort touching drunkenness. 



723. It hath been observed by the ancients, and 

 is yet believed, that the sperm of drunken men is 

 unfruitful. The cause is, for that it is over-moist 

 ened, and wanteth spissitude: and we have a merry 

 saying, that they that go drunk to bed get daughters. 



724. Drunken men are taken with a plain defect, 

 or destitution in voluntary motton. They reel ; they 

 tremble ; they cannot stand, nor speak strongly. The 

 cause is, for that the spirits of the wine oppress the 

 spirits animal, and occupy part of the place where 

 they are, and so make them weak to move. And 

 therefore drunken men are apt to fall asleep : and 

 opiates, and stupefactives, as poppy, hen-bane, hem 

 lock, &c. induce a kind of drunkenness, by the 

 grossness of their vapour, as wine doth by the quan 

 tity of the vapour. Besides, they rob the spirits 

 animal of their matter, whereby they are nourished : 

 for the spirits of the wine prey upon it as well as 

 they : and so they make the spirits less supple and 

 apt to move. 



725. Drunken men imagine every thing turneth 

 round : they imagine also that things come upon them : 



