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... doubt against the pretensions of their spiritual taskmasters , but were freely permitted to poison them- selves and their neighbors with spirituous abomina- tions . In that golden age of antiphysical doctrines , temperance had no chance ...
... doubt against the pretensions of their spiritual taskmasters , but were freely permitted to poison them- selves and their neighbors with spirituous abomina- tions . In that golden age of antiphysical doctrines , temperance had no chance ...
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Felix Leopold Oswald. rhymed Ulric Hutten , and there is no doubt that for centuries every large convent had a private wine - cel- lar . The monastery of Weltenburg , on the Danube , operated the largest brewery of the German Empire ...
Felix Leopold Oswald. rhymed Ulric Hutten , and there is no doubt that for centuries every large convent had a private wine - cel- lar . The monastery of Weltenburg , on the Danube , operated the largest brewery of the German Empire ...
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... doubt that the passion of the toper in- volves the inevitable loss of time , money , and repu- tation , as well as of health . And , unhappily , it also involves the loss of self - respect , and thus destroys the basis on which the ...
... doubt that the passion of the toper in- volves the inevitable loss of time , money , and repu- tation , as well as of health . And , unhappily , it also involves the loss of self - respect , and thus destroys the basis on which the ...
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... doubt - namely , the radical difference of its characteristics from those of a natural appetite . For- 1. Under normal circumstances the attractive- ness of alimentary substances is proportioned to the degree of their healthfulness and ...
... doubt - namely , the radical difference of its characteristics from those of a natural appetite . For- 1. Under normal circumstances the attractive- ness of alimentary substances is proportioned to the degree of their healthfulness and ...
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... doubt that the alleged innate crav- ing for the stimulus of fermented or distilled bever- ages is wholly abnormal , and that the alcohol habit is characterized by all the peculiarities of a poison vice . 3. All poison habits are ...
... doubt that the alleged innate crav- ing for the stimulus of fermented or distilled bever- ages is wholly abnormal , and that the alcohol habit is characterized by all the peculiarities of a poison vice . 3. All poison habits are ...
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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.