"From the experience of Mr. Fletcher, who has devoted much attention to cases of drunkards, from the statements of Mr. Dunn, in his" medical psychology "and comments from me, he, there is a certain analogy between our physical and mental, because the physical part of us, if his power is at its lowest, is prone to morbid influences which, in full force over which it would pass without effect, if such mental (synonymous with the moral) part of the brain has a healthy function disturbed and alarmed by the introduction of a morbid poison like alcohol, individual wells in the corruption in the circumstances, and "is the theme of the defense forces of evil," powerless nature of the morbid influence of alcohol. "
Different people have affected differently by the same poison. The consumption of alcoholic beverages may serve on one or more of the organs of the brain, and as its necessary consequence, the symptoms of functional disorders of the will in the faculties that the devices. If the continued indulgence, then, or can be developed by disturbance of nutrition or organic lesion, manifestations first in a fit of drunkenness permanent, and at the end of madness or mania dypso. Mr Flourens first highlighted the fact that certain pathological agents when they introduced into the flow of traffic, the first action, and especially in a hub, preferably inclined to one another, through an elective affinity between the diseased lymph nodes and some special agents. Thus, in the unsteady drunk, one sees the influence of alcohol on the functions of the cerebellum in the deterioration of the power of muscular coordination.
Some writers on diseases of the mind, a special mention to this form of dementia called dypsomania make, "in which a person has an unquenchable thirst for alcoholic beverages as a trend than manic murderous madness or uncontrollable urge to call it stealing or arson called burn kleptomania .
murderous madness. ---------------
The various strands of the school shooting in different individuals are often treated in action when the circulation of the blood was poisoned with alcohol. I had a case of a person if his brain was so excited, he said, he felt an uncontrollable desire to hurt or kill someone, so much so that sometimes barely contain, per share and was to refrain from all stimulants, so not the wrong time can be compromised. be Townley, who murdered the girl of his love for which he condemned, imprisoned in a mental institution for life, was poisoned his brain with brandy and soda before the eruption. Brandy has the activity of certain brain areas, the one power, his will was promoted to submit, and I hasten to the realization of a terrible deed, as his best wishes and contrary to common opinion.
As for arson, a few years ago I met a man who laughed in a work, the people, when he had drunk several glasses of beer in the tavern, with joy at the idea of some of the gentlemen batteries. But when his brain free from poison, a quieter, a man can not be eliminated. Unfortunately, he was addicted to habits of intoxication and a night under alcoholic excitement, fired some stacks of their employer, for which he condemns years in a penal colony, fifteen years old, where his brain should be encouraged never alcoholic.
Kleptomania. -----------
Then give an example of kleptomania. I knew many years ago, working a very intelligent, talented young man who told me that when he drank, she could not resist the temptation to all who met him to steal, but the feelings never worried about other times . One afternoon, after discussion with colleagues in the drink, his will was, unfortunately, overwhelmed and out of the house, where he was working some articles of value, for which he was convicted and sentenced to prison. When released, had the good fortune to be placed under the non-profit, the undersigned commonly than the abstainers, and for reasons of conscience, commitment, now twenty years ago. From then until now has never felt the overwhelming desire to take so often in his days of drinking, which is not attacked them. In addition, no excuse to put in this world the taste of alcoholic beverages with alcohol, the feeling that under his influence, which could be a victim. It has an influential position in the city where he lives.
I met some ladies of good position in society after a dinner dinner, and after a few glasses of wine could not resist the temptation to take home any little article not his own when the opportunity presented itself, and that in their sober moments, have returned, as if taken for error. We have recorded many examples in our police reports of gentlemen of position, under the influence of alcohol, to commit robberies nasty later returned to their owners by their friends, who s can be explained psychologically, that that will not complete the subtle influence of alcohol dominates.
The loss of mental clarity. ------------------------
Alcohol, when taken in amounts to be large or small, immediately disturbs the natural functions of the mind and body, is now recognized by the most eminent physiologists. Mr. Brinton said, "the vigilance, accuracy of conception, and delicacy of the senses, so far are with the opposition against the effects of alcohol and that all efforts of the individual are incompatible with the ingestion of moderate amounts of fermented liquid . In fact, there are almost all calls that require a skillful and exact effort of mind and body, or that requires a balanced exercise of many powers which are illustrated in this regulation. The mathematician, the player, the metaphysician, the billiard player, author, artist, doctor, if they correctly analyze the situation, their experiences have been generally agree on the allegation of a single glass will often have to be enough, to speak, the benefits for the body and mind, and reduce their capacity to something that is below the relative perfection of the work.
A train has been fueled by the negligence of a major London stations, running in another train, killing caused by the collision, six or seven people and injured many others. The evidence in the investigation it was found that the guard was expected sober, he only had two glasses of beer with a friend in a previous season. Well, psychologically based, they had played two glasses of beer, probably a factor in the adoption by the edge of his perceptions and prudence, and the production of carelessness or boldness of the action was not room in the cooling influence of alcoholic beverages hot. Many people told me they were not the same, even after drinking a glass of beer or wine they were before, and could not trust on the floor after taking this unique boat.
Bad memory. ---------------------
Memory impairment is one of the first symptoms of alcohol problems.
"This," said Dr. Richardson, "extends even to the neglect of ordinary things, the names of familiar people, events, tasks of daily life. Strangely, too, he added," this failure is not giving as among the elderly, the age of second childhood, but forgot to renew one, not to the past, but about events that occur is restricted. old memories in the mind retains its power, must be new incentives in line and wait. "
This failure of the nature of memory is a serious warning that is in imminent danger. Well prepared for the usual drinker, if you observe the warning. If not, developed the symptoms of more serious over time, and the brain becomes increasingly ill, may end in permanent insanity.
Mental and moral disease. --------------------------
Mental illness and moral often followed by the regular consumption of alcohol, we have painful records in reports of applicants for asylum in the testimony of medicine and everyday observation and experience. They are so varied and complete, and push for more attention that most surprising is that men run no fear of the terrible risks in the so-called moderate use of alcoholic beverages.
In 1872 a special committee of the House of Commons, to the best plan for the control and management to keep the drunk, "some of the greatest doctors in the UK asked to respond to a large number of witness issues, all issues in the field of research, the pathology of the frenzy of the practical usefulness of prohibitory sign laws. In this statement, much of the effect of alcoholic stimulation and mental state of morale, said. A physician, Dr. James Crichton Brown, who in ten years' experience as superintendent of lunatic asylums, special attention has been devoted to the relations of drunkenness in the usual madness, after careful consideration of five hundred case, testified that alcohol, taken in excess, produce various forms of mental illness, which he mentioned four classes: 1st Mania potu one or alcoholic mania. 2 . The monomania of suspicion. 3 chronic alcoholism, by impairment of memory and the ability to order characterized by partial paralysis usually ends fatally. Dypsomania fourth or an overwhelming desire alcoholic stimulants, occurring very frequently, climax, and with the continuing responsibility of recurrent exacerbations, when the wish is completely uncontrollable. In this latter form of the disease, said: "This is always associated with a specific impairment of intelligence and feelings, and moral forces."
Dr. Alexander Peddie, a physician in the almost thirty-seven years in Edinburgh, gave in his testimony, followed many striking examples of moral corruption, which continue to drink.
Relationship between madness and drunkenness. -----------------------------------------
Dr. John Nugent said that his experience of twenty-six years among lunatics to believe them that it had a very close relationship between the results of alcohol abuse and madness. The population of Ireland was reduced, he said, two million people in twenty-five years, but had the same amount of insanity now that it was before. He attributed this largely to drink in delight.
Dr. Arthur Mitchell, the Commissioner of insanity in Scotland, said excessive alcohol consumption much insanity, crime and pauperism of that country caused. In some men, he says, often drinks to other diseases than insanity, because the effect is always tilted in the direction, but the truth is, there are many cases where there is a clear tendency to madness, which would escape this terrible consumption, but for drinking, excessive consumption of alcohol in many people the definition of insanity among those who are vulnerable in any case. Children of alcoholics, he said, are madder than other children, and an even higher proportion intoxicated, but they are also more responsible forms of Ordinary Madness acquired.
Winslow Forbes believed that in the habitual drunkard the whole nervous system structure and especially the brain, was poisoned by alcohol. All mental symptoms, usually accompanied intoxication, he said, the result of the toxic effects of alcohol on the brain. The brain is first and foremost. In temporary drunkenness, the brain is abnormal state power, and if this continues in his custom for years, the nerve tissue is penetrated by alcohol, and organizational changes in the nerve tissue of the brain that produce this terrible delusion chronic and dangerous if we in the institutions , which again goes to the very habits of intoxication does. A large percentage of the terrible psychological damage of the brain and can be explained by the alcoholism of the parents returned.
Dr. DG Dodge, late of the New York State Drinking asylum who with. Dr. Joseph Parrish said before the committee in the House of Commons, said in one of their answers: "The excessive consumption of alcohol, functional disorders still appear and the court will not be affected and possibly brain defects. This is the excitement a weak intellect represented, weakness of the mental faculties, a partial or complete loss of self-esteem and an output power of self-control, acting in concert, rather than the victim to you for a spoiled appetite and morbid to thank, and render it powerless, by their own efforts to ensure its recovery from the disease, destroyed. "He added:" I am of the opinion that there is a "similarity between intoxication and insanity large.
"I firmly believe that the first took place in the family of diseases as prominently as its twin madness, and I think the day is not far distant when the pathology of the earlier period and will be treated as successfully as the latter, and even more popular because it more accessible and limits of human control, the appropriateness of exercise and is administered scientifically, can prevent noise on the edge of insanity curing incurable as possible. "
general deterioration of the faculties. -----------------------------------
Mr. Richardson spoke of the effect of alcohol on the mind, the following picture of the devastation is dark:
"Induces an analysis of the mood and maintained by daily use of alcohol as a beverage, shows a singular order of facts. The demonstration not lay completely open, the glorification of the Almighty considerations in a useful direction or satisfactory. I do not speak of an instance in which know an application of alcohol. On the contrary, confirmed alcoholics constantly say that for a certain work, thoughts and attention they need, it is necessary to give some libations used to have a cool head for hard work.
"On the other hand, is the experience of an overwhelming majority for the observation that alcohol consumption" sells the thought process, "make weak men and women easy prey for the wicked and strong, direct and women in all levels of misery and should be deputy. Thus, if alcohol weakens the reason, what part of the mental condition to raise and inspire not? It irritates the animals, organic, mental emotional Shopping rises in the dual nature of human beings tick, and so often against this type of pure and abstract thinking, man lifts from the lower animals, and exercised with reason, a little lower than angels.
He feels the worst passions of man. --------------------------------
Exciting these animal husbandry, loose all the passions, and gives them more or less on a man without a permit. It excites anger, and if not carried to extremes, the mind keeps restless, irritable, .... dissatisfied and captious if I will guide you through all the passions of love, hate, greed, envy, greed and pride, but I have to show that the Minister of alcohol at all, which paralyzes reason, which of these passions, Fine adjustment of reason, the man leading places in front of the lower animals. From the beginning, the end of its influence are subject to the reason and the passions of the Games. The analogies, physical and mental, are perfect. What decline in blood vessels that nourish the body with order and precision, and so loses his heart gave a violent and wild, loose, well, reason and passion run wild. In both cases, the heart and head, for a time, out of harmony, balance broken. The man gets more and more to the lower animals. Among the angels who slips further and further.
A sad and terrible picture. ---------------------------
The destructive effects of alcohol on the human spirit exists, finally, the saddest picture of its influence. The most aesthetic artist can find an angel. All is animal, and animals in the worst case. Memory irretrievably lost, forgotten words, and even elements of the language or repressed words have no meaning in them. The persistent rage and anger and malicious or transmitter and powerless. Fear in all corners of life, mistrust on all sides, the punishment in the empty desperation, despair, melancholy, are brought together permanently. Surely no Pandemonium that ever poet could equal that which would exist if all the drunks in the world have been dreaming, have led to a fatal bullet.
Since I among those who are affected by alcohol and were physically moved in various disguises of name for deadly diseases, the pains and penalties imposed on the body is detected, the picture was so cruel. But the image fades, as evoked without any effort of imagination, the devastation that causes the same active ingredient to the spirit. Forty percent., Superintendent Colney Hatch, Dr. Sheppard, learned tells us about those who were brought to the asylum in 1876 because of the direct or indirect effects of alcohol. If the facts are all nursing homes through the same application, same story was gathered, I fear, "said he. Why do we need more on the destructive effect on human mind to show? The Pandemonium of drunkards, the scene of this great transformation of the pantomime of Alcohol that starts with moderation, it is never by those who love their neighbor, to be forgotten, thanks to their efforts, is closed forever. "
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