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... beverages , and devised plans for the effective propaganda of their tenets . They doubted the ex- pediency of coercion in " a matter of private habits , ' but shrank from no sacrifice in braving the odium of personal intolerance , in ...
... beverages , and devised plans for the effective propaganda of their tenets . They doubted the ex- pediency of coercion in " a matter of private habits , ' but shrank from no sacrifice in braving the odium of personal intolerance , in ...
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... beverage " and a national curse . The contemporaries of the Veda - writers fuddled with soma - wine , the juice of a narcotic plant of the Himalaya foot - hills . Their neighbors , the pastoral Tartars , get drunk on koumiss , or ...
... beverage " and a national curse . The contemporaries of the Veda - writers fuddled with soma - wine , the juice of a narcotic plant of the Himalaya foot - hills . Their neighbors , the pastoral Tartars , get drunk on koumiss , or ...
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... beverage at festivals , and is vaunted as a remedy for various complaints , though Belzoni mentions that it makes its votaries more sub- ject to the attacks of the Nile fever . According to Prof. Vambéry , the Syrian Druses pray ...
... beverage at festivals , and is vaunted as a remedy for various complaints , though Belzoni mentions that it makes its votaries more sub- ject to the attacks of the Nile fever . According to Prof. Vambéry , the Syrian Druses pray ...
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... beverage , but neither considerations of economy nor of self - preserva- tion will induce the same exiles to break the fetters of the opium habit . Not one hasheesh - eater in a hun- dred can hope to emancipate himself from the thral ...
... beverage , but neither considerations of economy nor of self - preserva- tion will induce the same exiles to break the fetters of the opium habit . Not one hasheesh - eater in a hun- dred can hope to emancipate himself from the thral ...
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... beverages any re- medial or prophylactic effect ? How does alcohol counteract the contagion of climatic fevers ? In pre- cisely the same way as those fevers arrest , or rather suspend , the progress of other disorders . The vital ...
... beverages any re- medial or prophylactic effect ? How does alcohol counteract the contagion of climatic fevers ? In pre- cisely the same way as those fevers arrest , or rather suspend , the progress of other disorders . The vital ...
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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.