Chapter IV of Glaswegian surgeon Robert Macnish ’s 1834The Anatomy of Drunkennessconcerns itself with the seven unlike types of drunkards — or how tipsiness is " modified by the physical and moral frame of the drinker . " These are the melodic line he identifies .
1. Sanguineous Drunkard
I ’m picturing Gaston fromBeauty and the Beast . Despite the archeological site at Sanguineous ' intelligence , Macnish paints them as the life of the company , the " heroes of all drunken companies . " He ’s the guy you call when you ’re looking to go down on off steam with a drunken dark on the townsfolk . Just be prepared for some 2 am confessions : " Such workforce can not conceal their feeling . In drunkenness the head covering is move out from them . "
2. Melancholy Drunkard
These are not people who get weepy when they drink , but melancholy people by nature who fuddle to pep up .
If drinking is the temperateness that breaks the darkness that is your serious life , please see a professional .
3. Surly Drunkard
This is the person who becomes a worse version of themselves after a few drinks .
More than 150 years after this book was written , this passage ring dead on target as the means certain multitude get when they ’re inebriated . If you do n’t know anyone who rehashes long - forgotten fighting after a few too many , you probably are that person .
4. Phlegmatic Drunkard
Ouch . This is rightfully the abrasive , most smooth-spoken fashion to call someone boring .
5. Nervous Drunkard
I think , perhaps , dedicate himself to canvas people at their drunkest was not great for Mr. Macnish ’s view of humanity . This is what yr of being the only sober bozo at the company will do to you .
6. Choleric Drunkard
A course of people group together because they did n’t fit in anywhere else :
He does go on to say that , " this disposition is very prevalent among Welshman and Highland lairds . "
7. Periodical Drunkard
Nothing to make fun of here . " The individual , from a Department of State of complete sobriety , felt the most intense desire for drink ; and no power , short of sheer force or parturiency could restrain them from the lenience . " They go like just plain alcoholics .
[ h / tPublic Domain Review ]
