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... EFFECTS OF THE POISON - HABIT . The stimulant vice - History of human degeneration - Half - made men -Effects of the alcohol - vice - Upon savages - Upon civilized men -Alcohol epidemics - Indigestion - The after - effects of intoxica ...
... EFFECTS OF THE POISON - HABIT . The stimulant vice - History of human degeneration - Half - made men -Effects of the alcohol - vice - Upon savages - Upon civilized men -Alcohol epidemics - Indigestion - The after - effects of intoxica ...
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... effects of the alcohol habit , " says Dr. Isaac Jennings , " I want to impress the reader with another feature of it - its perpetuity . It can never be put off during the lifetime of the individ- ual ; it may be covered up to appearance ...
... effects of the alcohol habit , " says Dr. Isaac Jennings , " I want to impress the reader with another feature of it - its perpetuity . It can never be put off during the lifetime of the individ- ual ; it may be covered up to appearance ...
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... effect of the more virulent drugs ( opium , tartar emetic , arsenic , etc. ) was then studied from a physiological standpoint , and experi- ments proved what the medical philosopher Asclepia- des conjectured eighteen hundred years ago ...
... effect of the more virulent drugs ( opium , tartar emetic , arsenic , etc. ) was then studied from a physiological standpoint , and experi- ments proved what the medical philosopher Asclepia- des conjectured eighteen hundred years ago ...
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... effect ? How does alcohol counteract the contagion of climatic fevers ? In pre- cisely the same way as those fevers arrest , or rather suspend , the progress of other disorders . The vital process can not compromise with two diseases at ...
... effect ? How does alcohol counteract the contagion of climatic fevers ? In pre- cisely the same way as those fevers arrest , or rather suspend , the progress of other disorders . The vital process can not compromise with two diseases at ...
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... effect of the stimulus , and sooner or later the total exhaustion of the vital energies not only leaves the system at the mercy of the original foe , but far less able to re- sist his attacks . " There is but one appalling con- clusion ...
... effect of the stimulus , and sooner or later the total exhaustion of the vital energies not only leaves the system at the mercy of the original foe , but far less able to re- sist his attacks . " There is but one appalling con- clusion ...
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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.