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... disease . The pious belief that the excess of every social evil tends to insure its abolition , seems , indeed , to have been almost disproved by the history of the alcohol habit . When the yoke of despots had made deliver- ance more ...
... disease . The pious belief that the excess of every social evil tends to insure its abolition , seems , indeed , to have been almost disproved by the history of the alcohol habit . When the yoke of despots had made deliver- ance more ...
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... disease , and no emergency arising from accident , that could not be treated more success- fully without any form of fermented or distilled liquor than with . " Dr. James R. Nichols , editor of the Boston " Journal of Chemistry ...
... disease , and no emergency arising from accident , that could not be treated more success- fully without any form of fermented or distilled liquor than with . " Dr. James R. Nichols , editor of the Boston " Journal of Chemistry ...
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... disease , and that , moderation and repudiation failing , we must direct our blows at the root of the upas tree and adopt the motto of " Eradication . " Truce means defeat in the struggle against an evil that will reproduce its seed ...
... disease , and that , moderation and repudiation failing , we must direct our blows at the root of the upas tree and adopt the motto of " Eradication . " Truce means defeat in the struggle against an evil that will reproduce its seed ...
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... disease - Lon- gevity - Physical degeneration - Ancient athletes — Hereditary transmissions - Insanity statistics - Shah Nahum's secret - Ab- stinent nations - Turks and Nubians - Their physical vigor- Topers ' sophistry- " Climatic ...
... disease - Lon- gevity - Physical degeneration - Ancient athletes — Hereditary transmissions - Insanity statistics - Shah Nahum's secret - Ab- stinent nations - Turks and Nubians - Their physical vigor- Topers ' sophistry- " Climatic ...
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... disease as well as in health , and the road to the rum - shop leads through the dispensary as often as through the beer garden . The logical conclusion of all these premises thus reveals the two - fold secret of the alcohol habit : the ...
... disease as well as in health , and the road to the rum - shop leads through the dispensary as often as through the beer garden . The logical conclusion of all these premises thus reveals the two - fold secret of the alcohol habit : 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.