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... brandy as a " digestive tonic , " and elude the inconven- ience of the Sunday law by consigning his liquor to a drug - store ? Wherever the laboring - classes find a chance for healthier recreations the army of topers would die out from ...
... brandy as a " digestive tonic , " and elude the inconven- ience of the Sunday law by consigning his liquor to a drug - store ? Wherever the laboring - classes find a chance for healthier recreations the army of topers would die out from ...
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... Brandy - doctors , " as Benjamin Rush used to call them , abuse the confidence of their pa- tients by inoculating them with the seeds of a life- blighting vice . Thousands of topers owe their ruin to a prescription of " tonic - bitters ...
... Brandy - doctors , " as Benjamin Rush used to call them , abuse the confidence of their pa- tients by inoculating them with the seeds of a life- blighting vice . Thousands of topers owe their ruin to a prescription of " tonic - bitters ...
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... brandy ? " " Nenni , mais pa m'en fit prendre , " he replied- " father made me drink it . ” 2. The instinctive aversion to any kind of poi- son can be perverted into an unnatural craving after the same substance . Poisons are either ...
... brandy ? " " Nenni , mais pa m'en fit prendre , " he replied- " father made me drink it . ” 2. The instinctive aversion to any kind of poi- son can be perverted into an unnatural craving after the same substance . Poisons are either ...
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... brandy and rum . Others increased the quantity , and learned to drink horse- pails full of beer , in which " diluted and harmless form " many German students manage to absorb a quart of alcohol per day . ( Appendix I. ) " People ...
... brandy and rum . Others increased the quantity , and learned to drink horse- pails full of beer , in which " diluted and harmless form " many German students manage to absorb a quart of alcohol per day . ( Appendix I. ) " People ...
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... brandy . But no poison - vice can be cured by milder stimu- lants . The Beelzebub of alcohol does not yield to weaker spirits ; hence the fallacy of the antidote plan . Nothing was formerly more common with temperance people of the ...
... brandy . But no poison - vice can be cured by milder stimu- lants . The Beelzebub of alcohol does not yield to weaker spirits ; hence the fallacy of the antidote plan . Nothing was formerly more common with temperance people of the ...
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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.