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Felix Leopold Oswald. Soc 4404.1 HARI VE TAS CCLESTE Harvard College Library THE GIFT OF SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN , M.D. , OF BOSTON . ( Class of 1851. ) 19 March , 1890 . THE POISON PROBLEM OR THE CAUSE AND CURE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Felix Leopold Oswald. Soc 4404.1 HARI VE TAS CCLESTE Harvard College Library THE GIFT OF SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN , M.D. , OF BOSTON . ( Class of 1851. ) 19 March , 1890 . THE POISON PROBLEM OR THE CAUSE AND CURE OF INTEMPERANCE.
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... classes find a chance for healthier recreations the army of topers would die out from want of recruits , if the causes of intemperance were limited to the temptations of the rum - shop , with its garish splendor and its PREFACE . 9.
... classes find a chance for healthier recreations the army of topers would die out from want of recruits , if the causes of intemperance were limited to the temptations of the rum - shop , with its garish splendor and its PREFACE . 9.
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... class . To the first - born children of earth certain mineral poisons were decidedly out - of - the - way substances , against which Nature apparently thought it less necessary to provide special safeguards . But , though less repulsive ...
... class . To the first - born children of earth certain mineral poisons were decidedly out - of - the - way substances , against which Nature apparently thought it less necessary to provide special safeguards . But , though less repulsive ...
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... classes and all characters are massed together , and where there are innumerable strangers , separated from all domestic ties and occu- pations , public amusements of an exciting order are absolutely necessary , and that to suppress ...
... classes and all characters are massed together , and where there are innumerable strangers , separated from all domestic ties and occu- pations , public amusements of an exciting order are absolutely necessary , and that to suppress ...
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... class of society are the ravages of contagious dis- eases so wide - spread and deadly as among those who are addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages . " Is alcohol a digestive tonic ? Can we cure an in- digestion by the most ...
... class of society are the ravages of contagious dis- eases so wide - spread and deadly as among those who are addicted to the use of alcoholic beverages . " Is alcohol a digestive tonic ? Can we cure an in- digestion by the most ...
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The Poison Problem: Or the Cause and Cure of Intemperance (Classic Reprint) Felix L. Oswald No preview available - 2018 |
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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.