DRUNKS IN EVERY STYLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 684, 4 February 1881, Page 2

DRUNKS IN EVERY STYLE.

An English phyaioian, Dr Shorthouse, has been making an interesting aeries of observations on the manner in which various drinks act on different parts of tho cerebrospinal system which preside over locomotion.. He says:-" If a man partakes of too large a quantity of good sound wine or malt, liquor he. usually staggers about from side to side, his gait is very unsteady, and if he' comes to grief on mother earth, he generally falls on one side or the other. If he takes too much whisky, especially that, abomination that goes by .the name of Irish whisky, he is almost certain to be sept with an irrgBistible impulse to fall forward on his faco. If he gets drunk either on cider.or perry, the latter more especially, he is certain to fall suddenly on .his back, and apparently without any previous warning. He once saw a number of men who had made too merry at a harvest, feast all fall down in the Bavne manner...He.had.never wit* neasod anything of the kind before, and was not a ljttle amazed as well as amused, The farmer, who was a very shrewd Here' fordahire man, told him that was the effect invariably produced by perry, of which his men had that day partaken liber illy. He has'sinp'e Been several isolated cases which havp corroborated the farmer's version of the action of an overdoae of perry or.cider." • Or Shorthouße's researches, unhappily, have pot been attended with sujpient precision, nor have they extended oyer a sufficiently, wide field. American investigators could.have told him that not only do different drinks affect men in various ways, but the effects differ according to the quantity imbibed. Thus, while four fingers of _ the-whisky peculiar to cheap saloons will pause the subject violently to invert, ether people, a dose of fourteen fingers: will.; lead him peacefully to invert himself: The gin of similar resorts, which is not- distinguish: able from the ordinary turpentine of com' merce, produces pedal entapglemepts aud precipitation upon thp bridge of the noße, a fact observe'd>by the psalmist, who made allußton to.the relation pf the feet to the gin. The rum of these places, invariably produces' pedestrian- exercise'.' upftn., the oar', the white. Medford the subject invariably to. walk his left ear, while old ; Jamaica as.invariably inspires his right, ear with, .locomotive powers, The brandy, of thesis resorts is as instantaneous and oyefwhelming in its effects ss.a thunderbolt, and'the victim who.partakes'pf it at once Binks down on every portion of himself/simultaneously, As for the wineß their action is quite different. Instead of flooring the subject, they impel him to wander over the face of the earth and never sit or fall down.thflugh l}is path be strewn with banana peel? and he: lie aniong string pieces of docks'. Altogether Dr Shorthouse can find a far more fertile .field for investigation in these United States than is open tq him. in England, .even without making inquiry' into the more abstruse and complicated beverages hf the Great West, like the faMamed shepherd!* delight of Nevada, oho drink of whieh-fa* . cinating fluid. moves; the assirailator to steal his own sheep and hide them in the remote'sage bush from his own pursuit. tBoston Me^ical^ourrjaL.-.

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