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... experience , if not of physiology , gradually taught the friends of temperance to relin- quish that hope . A strong party of the Reform League declared in favor of total abstinence from al- coholic beverages , and devised plans for the ...
... experience , if not of physiology , gradually taught the friends of temperance to relin- quish that hope . A strong party of the Reform League declared in favor of total abstinence from al- coholic beverages , and devised plans for the ...
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... experiences , the friends of reform will at last recognize the truth , that the " temperate use " of alcohol is but the first stage of a progressive and shame - proof disease , and that , moderation and repudiation failing , we must ...
... experiences , the friends of reform will at last recognize the truth , that the " temperate use " of alcohol is but the first stage of a progressive and shame - proof disease , and that , moderation and repudiation failing , we must ...
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... experience of individual drunkards probably corresponds to the international development of the alcohol habit . Its first devotees contented themselves with moderate quantities of the milder stimulants - must , hydromel , and light beer ...
... experience of individual drunkards probably corresponds to the international development of the alcohol habit . Its first devotees contented themselves with moderate quantities of the milder stimulants - must , hydromel , and light beer ...
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... experience . 3. By the direct or indirect concessions of the ablest physiologists . Our instincts protest against medication . Against ninety - nine of a hundred " remedial drugs " our sense of taste warns us as urgently as against ...
... experience . 3. By the direct or indirect concessions of the ablest physiologists . Our instincts protest against medication . Against ninety - nine of a hundred " remedial drugs " our sense of taste warns us as urgently as against ...
Page 58
... experience of the results of habitual alco- holic excesses than we have in regard to any other nervine stimulant ; and all such experience points de- cidedly to hereditary transmission of that acquired perversion of the normal nutrition ...
... experience of the results of habitual alco- holic excesses than we have in regard to any other nervine stimulant ; and all such experience points de- cidedly to hereditary transmission of that acquired perversion of the normal nutrition ...
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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.