Reciepts in Medicine
Intoxication. A person so overcome with liquor as to be helpless, ought not to be left alone till his clothes are loosened, and he is laid in a psoture the most favourable for the continuance of the vital functions, and the discharge of an overladen stomach. The best posture, therefore, is to lay him upon his belly, and when asleep he may be shifted on one side, with his head a little raised, care being taken that he has nothing too tight about his neck. To allay thirst occasioned by drinking, nothing is so good as tea and vomiting. which ought always be attended to; an infusion of chamomile flowers will be proper.
From The Domestic Oracle, or, A Complete System of Modern Cookery and Family Economy ... by Alexander Murray, M.D.
(just in case)