http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/search?f1-date%3D1806;f2-subject%3Danecdote Results for your query: f1-date=1806;f2-subject=anecdote Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 GMT http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05336.xml AT one of the Edinburgh medi- cal societies, which are principally composed of students, they debated once more an old question, whether opium is a stimulant? Much sophis- try and much ingenuity were dis- played as usual by several juvenile orators, but without arriving much nearer the truth than they were be- fore. The question was several times new modelled in the course of discussion; at length it was asked, are there not specific stimulants? do all act in the same manner? has wine, for example, the same effect upon the human body as spirits, Peru- vian bark, &c? A student, fonder of good wine than of the abstruse study of physic, was stimulated with the very name of wine, though he was silent all the evening before. “Dif- ference!” said he; “ay that there is, a vast deal of difference in stimu- lants; ay, even in different kinds of spirituous liquors. Now I cannot, at present, talk to you about irrita- bility, and nervous fluid, and all that kin... http://brockdenbrown.cah.ucf.edu/xtf3/view?docId=1806-05336.xml Thu, 01 May 1806 12:00:00 GMT