

SECT. XXI. i. OF DRUNKENNESS. 28^ 



SECT. XXI. 



OF DRUNKENNESS. 



I. Sleep from fatiety of hunger. From rocking children. 

 From ur if or?n founds. 2. Intoxication from comriion 

 food after fat ^te and Inanition. 3. From wine or 

 opium. Chllnefs after meals. Vert/go- Why plea- 

 fur e is produced by intoxication, and by fwinging and 

 rocking children. And why pain is relie-ved by it. 

 4. Why drunkards ftagger and fiammer, and are 

 liable to weep. 5. And become ddirlous^ flecpy, and 

 Jlupid. 6. Or make pale urine and vomit. 7. Ob- 

 jehs are feen double. 8. Attention of the mind dl- 

 minifhes drunkenncfs. 9. Difordered irritative mo- 

 tions of all the fenfes. io. Difeafes from drunken- 

 nefs. ii. Definition of drunkennefs. 



I. IN the (late of nature when the fenfe of hun- 

 ger is appeafed by the (limulus of agreeable food, the 

 bufmefs of the day is over, and the human favage 

 is at peace with the world, he then exerts little at- 

 tention to external objects, pleafmg reveries of ima- 

 gination fucceed, and at length Deep is the refult : 

 till the nourimment which he has procured, is car- 

 ried over every part of the fyftem to repair the inju- 

 ries of action, and he awakens with frefh vigour, 

 and feels a renewal of his fenfe of hunger. 



The juices of fome bitter vegetables, as of the pop- 

 py and thelauro-cerafus, and the ardent fpirit pro- 

 duced in the fermentation of the fugar found in ve- 

 getable juices, are fo agreeable to the nerves of the 

 ftomach, that, taken in a fmall quantity, they in- 

 ftantly pacify the leafe of hunger j and the iuatten- 

 lion to external ftimuli with the reveries of imagi- 



VOL. I. U nation. 



