288 OF DRUNKENNESS. SECT. XXI. 6. 71 



6. In other people a paroxyfm of drunkennefs has 

 another termination ; the inebriate, as foon as he 

 begins to be vertiginous, makes pale urine in great 

 quantities and very frequently, and at length be- 

 comes fick, vomits repeatedly, or purges, or has 

 profufe fweats, and a temporary fever enfues with a 

 quick (Irong pulfe. This in fome hours is fucceeded 

 by flecp ; but the unfortunate bacchanalian does not 

 perfectly recover himlelf till about the fame time of 

 the fucceeding day, when his courfe of inebriation 

 began. As fhewn in ^^ect XVII. r. 7. on Catena- 

 tion. Th tempoiarv fever \vith (Irong pulfe is ow- 

 ing to the fame cauitr as the glow on the fkn men- 

 tioned in the third paragraph of this Section : the 

 flow of urine an<4 fickneis arifes fiorri the whole fyi- 

 tem of irritative motions being thrown into confu- 

 fion by their allbciaticns with each other ; as in fea- 

 ficknefs, mentioned in Seel. XX. 4 on Vertigo : ancj 

 which is more fully explained in bsct. XXIX. on 

 Diabetes. 



7. In this vertigo from internal caufes we fee ob- 

 jects double, as two candles inftead of one, which is 

 thus explained. Two lines drawn through the axes 

 of our two eyes meet at the object we attend to : 

 this angle of the optic axes increafes or diminiflies 

 with the lefs or greater diitances of objecls. All ob- 

 jects before or behind the place where this angle is 

 formed, appear double; as any one may obferve by 

 holding up a ppn between his eyes and the candle ; 

 when he looks attentively at a fpot on the pen, and 

 careicfsly at the candle, it will appear double ; and 

 the reverfe when he looks attentively at the can- 

 dle and careleisly at the pen ; fo that in this cafe the 

 mufcies of the eye, like thofe of the limbs, Dagger 

 and are difobedicnr to the expiring efforts of voli- 

 tion Numerous objects are indeed fometimes feen 

 by the inebriate, occafioned by the refractions made 

 by the tears, which it and upon his eye-lids. 



8. This 



