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Page 17
... admits that " home influences are too often mistaken for he- reditary influences . " And boy - topers are not always voluntary converts . The year before I left my native town ( Brussels ) I found a drunken lad on the platform of the ...
... admits that " home influences are too often mistaken for he- reditary influences . " And boy - topers are not always voluntary converts . The year before I left my native town ( Brussels ) I found a drunken lad on the platform of the ...
Page 43
... admit only of one conclusion , and , after giving the above - mentioned exception the bene- fit of a ( temporary ) doubt , we can assert with perfect confidence that drastic drugs have no remedial value , and that every drop of alcohol ...
... admit only of one conclusion , and , after giving the above - mentioned exception the bene- fit of a ( temporary ) doubt , we can assert with perfect confidence that drastic drugs have no remedial value , and that every drop of alcohol ...
Page 59
... par- ents are frequently given to sexual excesses , admits , perhaps , of the same explanation . Dr. Norman Kerr , in an address read before the International Congress at Brussels ( August , 1880 ) , PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS . 59.
... par- ents are frequently given to sexual excesses , admits , perhaps , of the same explanation . Dr. Norman Kerr , in an address read before the International Congress at Brussels ( August , 1880 ) , PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS . 59.
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... admit to be the inevitable consequence of the stimulant - habit . Every known disease of the human system is aggra- vated by intemperance . The morbid diathesis , as physicians call a predisposition to organic disorders , finds an ally ...
... admit to be the inevitable consequence of the stimulant - habit . Every known disease of the human system is aggra- vated by intemperance . The morbid diathesis , as physicians call a predisposition to organic disorders , finds an ally ...
Page 80
... admits of no doubt , from a moral point of view , considering the facts that : 1. Fifteen per cent of all confirmed topers owe their ruin to the after - effects of a medical prescrip- tion . 2. A single dose of alcoholic drugs is ...
... admits of no doubt , from a moral point of view , considering the facts that : 1. Fifteen per cent of all confirmed topers owe their ruin to the after - effects of a medical prescrip- tion . 2. A single dose of alcoholic drugs is ...
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The Poison Problem: Or the Cause and Cure of Intemperance (Classic Reprint) Felix L. Oswald No preview available - 2018 |
The Poison Problem; Or, the Cause and Cure of Intemperance Felix Leopold Oswald No preview available - 2011 |
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Page 85 - The alcohol does not relieve the individual from cold by increasing his temperature ; nor from heat by cooling him ; nor from weakness and exhaustion by nourishing his tissues ; nor yet from affliction by increasing his nerve...
Page 85 - ... and thereby lessening his consciousness of impressions, whether from cold, or heat, or weariness, or pain. In other words, the presence of the alcohol has not in any degree lessened the effects of the evils to which he is exposed, but has diminished his consciousness of their existence, and thereby impaired his judgment concerning the degree of their action upon him.
Page 101 - In the course of my duty as internal revenue officer, I have become thoroughly acquainted with the state and extent of the liquor traffic in Maine, and I have no hesitation in saying that the beer trade is not more than one per cent. of what I remember it to have been, and the trade in distilled liquors is not more than ten per cent. of what it was formerly. . . . When liquor is sold at all, it is done secretly, through fear of the law.