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... called temperance drinks - Cider and beer - Suggestive statistics - A lesson from Nature - Total abstinence the only safe plan CHAPTER II . THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . PAGE ยท 13 The exegesis of vice - Antiquity of the poison - habit ...
... called temperance drinks - Cider and beer - Suggestive statistics - A lesson from Nature - Total abstinence the only safe plan CHAPTER II . THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . PAGE ยท 13 The exegesis of vice - Antiquity of the poison - habit ...
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... called a " negative food , " be- cause it retards the progress of the organic changes ; but it has been demonstrated that that retardation is in every case an abnormal and morbid process , and that its results can not benefit the system ...
... called a " negative food , " be- cause it retards the progress of the organic changes ; but it has been demonstrated that that retardation is in every case an abnormal and morbid process , and that its results can not benefit the system ...
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... called a positive food , because , for- sooth , it is derived ( by a process of decomposition ) from grain , fruits , and other nutritive substances . We might as well call mildew a nutritive substance , because it is formed by the ...
... called a positive food , because , for- sooth , it is derived ( by a process of decomposition ) from grain , fruits , and other nutritive substances . We might as well call mildew a nutritive substance , because it is formed by the ...
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... called temperate drinkers indulge in light wine , absinthe , tea , coffee , and chloral , and are weak- lier and sicklier than the Hungarian dram - drinkers who confine themselves to plum brandy , for the sys- tem of the miscellaneous ...
... called temperate drinkers indulge in light wine , absinthe , tea , coffee , and chloral , and are weak- lier and sicklier than the Hungarian dram - drinkers who confine themselves to plum brandy , for the sys- tem of the miscellaneous ...
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... called intoxication , react on certain faculties of the mind ( by affecting their corresponding cerebral organ ) as regu- larly as on the liver , or any other part of the human organism . Consumption stimulates the love of life : a self ...
... called intoxication , react on certain faculties of the mind ( by affecting their corresponding cerebral organ ) as regu- larly as on the liver , or any other part of the human organism . Consumption stimulates the love of life : a self ...
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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...โ
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.โ
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.โ