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... facts established by the North American and West European statistics of in- temperance . In Great Britain the consumption of fermented and distilled liquors has increased since 1850 at the average yearly rate of three and one third per ...
... facts established by the North American and West European statistics of in- temperance . In Great Britain the consumption of fermented and distilled liquors has increased since 1850 at the average yearly rate of three and one third per ...
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... fact - Interchangeable vices - Narcotics and alcoholic drinks - Identical in their essential effects - Self ... facts- The age of confirmed habits - Rousseau's climacteric . 28 44 CHAPTER IV . THE COSTS OF INTEMPERANCE . PAGE Increase.
... fact - Interchangeable vices - Narcotics and alcoholic drinks - Identical in their essential effects - Self ... facts- The age of confirmed habits - Rousseau's climacteric . 28 44 CHAPTER IV . THE COSTS OF INTEMPERANCE . PAGE Increase.
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... facts - The poison - habit in all its forms an unmixed evil - Sophisms of the compromise plan CHAPTER V. ALCOEOLIC DRUGS . Obsolete doctrines - Theory and practice - Untenable dogmas - Our medical text - books - Practical tests - The ...
... facts - The poison - habit in all its forms an unmixed evil - Sophisms of the compromise plan CHAPTER V. ALCOEOLIC DRUGS . Obsolete doctrines - Theory and practice - Untenable dogmas - Our medical text - books - Practical tests - The ...
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... fact that man can not measure his cunning against the wisdom of the Creator , and the highest development of science has only revealed its own incompetence to imitate , or even comprehend , the structural perfection of the simplest ...
... fact that man can not measure his cunning against the wisdom of the Creator , and the highest development of science has only revealed its own incompetence to imitate , or even comprehend , the structural perfection of the simplest ...
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... fact , nothing but a symptom of the morbid energy exerted by the system in its efforts to rid itself of a deadly intruder , for each new applica- tion of the stimulus is as regularly followed by a dis- tressing reaction . And only then ...
... fact , nothing but a symptom of the morbid energy exerted by the system in its efforts to rid itself of a deadly intruder , for each new applica- tion of the stimulus is as regularly followed by a dis- tressing reaction . And only then ...
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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.