An Essay, Medical, Philosophical, and Chemical on Drunkenness and its Effects on the Human Body (Psychology Revivals)Routledge, 26 nov. 2013 - 264 pagini It was during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the problem of chronic alcohol dependence in modern society and its consequent medical effects emerged. The topic of drunkenness figures prominently in the thinking and writing of social reformers, politicians, theorists, medical practitioners, and psychiatrists. Eventually, by the mid-nineteenth century, ‘alcoholism’ was named as the disease of habitual drunkenness. Possibly the most important book to predict this was Trotter’s Essay, written in 1804. Through case studies based on wide experience, he detailed the manifestations of alcoholism, ventured therapeutic recommendations, and squarely termed drunkenness a disease – indeed, a mental disease. Originally published in 1988 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, Roy Porter’s Introduction to this facsimile reprint locates Trotter’s work within the wider history of the evolution of the idea of alcoholism. It also examines the Essay in the context of Trotter’s own life and mind – a mind preoccupied with what he saw as the degenerative tendencies of modern civilization and with the wider issues of drug dependence. |
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... also examines the Essay in the context of Trotter's own life and mind – a mind preoccupied with what he saw as the degenerative tendencies of modern civilization and with the wider issues of drug dependence. This page intentionally left ...
... also were the parent and proprietary nostrums which began to flood the medical self-care market during the eighteenth century.3 Down the centuries critics, of course, tiraded against tippling; but drunkenness was typically treated as a ...
... also lurked in the contemporaneous emergence of the great capitalist brewers - entrepreneurs such as Henry Thrale or Samuel Whitbread, who operated on a scale comparable to the greatest factory-owning cotton-spinner or mines magnate ...
... also suggested parallels with pica, the inordinate longings of pregnant women for peculiar food or drink. Regarding what he called (dipsomania' as a physical disease of the whole nervous system, Briihl-Cramer recommended treatment with ...
... also translated into German and Swedish. There is much truth in the traditional view that the Essay . . . on Drunkenness was a notable, original and pioneering work. Trotter quite explicitly, indeed aggressively, defines drunkenness as ...
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Bibliography of the Writings of Thomas Trotter
| xli |
Trotters MD Thesis De Ebrietate
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Dedication | xlix |
Preface | li |
Table of Contents | lv |
Introduction | 1 |
Definition of Drunkenness | 8 |
Phænomena and Symptoms of Drunkenness | 14 |
In what Manner Vinous Spirit affects the Body | 31 |
The Catalogue of Diseases induced by Drunkenness | 96 |
The Method of correcting the Habit of Drunkennes and of treating the Drunken Paroxysm | 136 |
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