-wax, if such be a part of the cause. For the vertigo arising from
indigestion, the peruvian bark and a blister are recommended. And for that
owing to a stone in the ureter, venesection, cathartics, opiates, sal soda
aerated.

12. Definition of vertigo. 1. Some of the irritative sensual, or muscular
motions, which were usually not succeeded by sensation, are in this disease
succeeded by sensation; and the trains or circles of motions, which were
usually catenated with them, are interrupted, or inverted, or proceed in
confusion. 2. The sensitive and voluntary motions continue undisturbed. 3.
The associate trains or circles of motions continue; but their catenations
with some of the irritative motions are disordered, or inverted, or
dissevered.

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SECT. XXI.

OF DRUNKENNESS.

1. _Sleep from satiety of hunger. From rocking children. From uniform
sounds._ 2. _Intoxication from common food after fatigue and
inanition._ 3. _From wine or of opium. Chilness after meals. Vertigo.
Why pleasure is produced by intoxication, and by swinging and rocking
children. And why pain is relieved by it._ 4. _Why drunkards stagger
and stammer, and are liable to weep._ 5. _And become delirious, sleepy,
and stupid._ 6. _Or make pale urine and vomit._ 7. _Objects are seen
double._ 8. _Attention of the mind diminishes drunkenness._ 9.
_Disordered irritative motions of all the senses._ 10. _Diseases from
drunkenness._ 11. _Definition of drunkenness._

1. In the state of nature when the sense of hunger is appeased by the
stimulus of agreeable food, the business of the day is over, and the human
savage is at peace with the world, he then exerts little attention to
external objects, pleasing reveries of imagination succeed, and at length
sleep is the result: till the nourishment which he has procured, is carried
over every part of the system to repair the injuries of action, and he
awakens with fresh vigour, and feels a renewal of his sense of hunger.

The juices of some bitter vegetables, as of the poppy and the laurocerasus,
and the ardent spirit produced in the fermentation of the sugar found in
vegetable juices, are so agreeable to the nerves of the stomach, that,
taken in a small quantity, they instantly pacify the sense of hunger; and
the inattention to external stimuli with the reveries of imagination, and
sleep, succeeds, in the same manner as when the stoma