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... climate of this earth is man afflicted with an instinctive hankering after alcohol . To the palate of an unseduced boy rum is as repulsive as cor- rosive sublimate . I do not speak only of the sons of nature - abiding parents , but of ...
... climate of this earth is man afflicted with an instinctive hankering after alcohol . To the palate of an unseduced boy rum is as repulsive as cor- rosive sublimate . I do not speak only of the sons of nature - abiding parents , but of ...
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... climate and the manifold overstraining influences of an artificial civili- zation . For it can , besides , be proved that the alleged invigorating action of alcoholic drinks is an absolute delusion , and the pathological records of ...
... climate and the manifold overstraining influences of an artificial civili- zation . For it can , besides , be proved that the alleged invigorating action of alcoholic drinks is an absolute delusion , and the pathological records of ...
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... climate a saccharine fluid is apt to ferment , and some avaricious housekeeper may have drunk that spoiled stuff till she became fond of it , and learned to prefer it to must . ” Avarice , aided perhaps by dietetic prurience , or ...
... climate a saccharine fluid is apt to ferment , and some avaricious housekeeper may have drunk that spoiled stuff till she became fond of it , and learned to prefer it to must . ” Avarice , aided perhaps by dietetic prurience , or ...
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... climate than Spain , the abstemious Arabs , the Afghans , and the Moors , have preserved the vigor of their earliest ancestors . The soil that now pro- duces lazzaroni and musici was once trod by the con- querors of three continents ...
... climate than Spain , the abstemious Arabs , the Afghans , and the Moors , have preserved the vigor of their earliest ancestors . The soil that now pro- duces lazzaroni and musici was once trod by the con- querors of three continents ...
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... climate they are cachectic and rather dull- witted ; alcohol has stunted their stamina as well as their stature . But there are other forms of physical degenera- tion which can with certainty be ascribed to the influ- ence of the ...
... climate they are cachectic and rather dull- witted ; alcohol has stunted their stamina as well as their stature . But there are other forms of physical degenera- tion which can with certainty be ascribed to the influ- ence 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.