CHAPTER VII. 



INTOXICATION. 



THE phenomena, and the circumstances, of alcoholic intem- 

 perance and intoxication in the lower animals illustrate 



1. The unfortunate fact that certain other animals are 

 not free from sane man's worst vices vices which, however, 

 in most cases, they acquire directly from himself. 



2. The suggestive fact that alcohol and other stimulants 

 produce the same kind of effects on the brain and mind, 

 nervous system and general bodily functions and conditions, 

 in other animals, as in man. 



3. The opposite, or different effects occasionally produced 

 by the same drug, or poison, according to individuality and 

 idiosyncrasy, to sex and age, to species or genus, to physical 

 structure, and to habits of life, or to other modifying causes. 



4. The singular perversions of appetite, the artificial 

 tastes, to which they are subject, or which they acquire by 

 imitation, or otherwise from association with man. 



Alcoholic inebriation in all its degrees of tipsiness and 

 drunkenness, a decided love or fondness for malt or spirituous 

 liquors of almost every kind, occur in a considerable number 

 and variety of animals, from among the lowest to the high- 

 est. Thus I have notes of its occurrence so low down in 

 the zoological scale as among the medusa, while higher 

 animals include 



1. The orang and chimpanzee, the mandrill, pigmy, and 

 other apes or baboons, coaita, sooty mangabey and other 

 monkeys, the diadem, or other lemurs, and the lori among 

 the quadrumana. 



2. The horse and pony, ass and mule, elephant, dog, rat, 

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