The Metropolis

Get drunk over the weekend? This is what you looked like

Mike Pollitt | Tuesday 31 May, 2011 14:38

“The drunkard commonly hath a swollen and inflamed face beset with goodly jowles; swimming, running, glaring, goggle eyes, bleared and red; a mouth nasty with offensive fumes, alwayes foaming, or drivelling; a feverish body; a sicke and giddy braine; a mind dispersed; a boyling stomacke; rotten teeth; stinking breath; a drumming eare; a palsied hand; gouty, staggering legs, that would go, but cannot; a drawling, stammering, tongue, clamped to the roofe and gumms.” [Via the excellent Dainty Ballerina, comes an entertaining collection of 17th century anti-booze texts]

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