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... five and a half per cent ; in northern Germany ( in- cluding Saxony and Alsace - Lorraine ) the manufacture of malt liquors has doubled since 1866 ; and even in the United States the consumption of intoxicating drinks of all kinds has ...
... five and a half per cent ; in northern Germany ( in- cluding Saxony and Alsace - Lorraine ) the manufacture of malt liquors has doubled since 1866 ; and even in the United States the consumption of intoxicating drinks of all kinds has ...
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... five times , its natural size . The weight of a healthy liver varies from five to eight pounds ; and Dr. You- mans mentions the post - mortem examination of an English drunkard whose liver was found to weigh fifty pounds , and adds that ...
... five times , its natural size . The weight of a healthy liver varies from five to eight pounds ; and Dr. You- mans mentions the post - mortem examination of an English drunkard whose liver was found to weigh fifty pounds , and adds that ...
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... five years . From 1792 to 1858 , army after army of schnapps - drinking Muscovites attacked them from the north , east , and west , and were hurled back like dogs from the lair of a lion , and fifteen hundred thousand Russian soldiers ...
... five years . From 1792 to 1858 , army after army of schnapps - drinking Muscovites attacked them from the north , east , and west , and were hurled back like dogs from the lair of a lion , and fifteen hundred thousand Russian soldiers ...
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... five enemies , and , as it were , sustain the wounds of five different weapons . The medieval knights and many Grecian and Roman epicureans could drink a quantity of wine that would kill a mod- ern toper ; but they confined themselves ...
... five enemies , and , as it were , sustain the wounds of five different weapons . The medieval knights and many Grecian and Roman epicureans could drink a quantity of wine that would kill a mod- ern toper ; but they confined themselves ...
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... five glasses of beer , they have outraged their sys- tems by the same amount of poison , and will incur the same penalty . Total abstinence is the safe plan , nay , the only safe plan , for poisons can not be reduced to a harmless dose ...
... five glasses of beer , they have outraged their sys- tems by the same amount of poison , and will incur the same penalty . Total abstinence is the safe plan , nay , the only safe plan , for poisons can not be reduced to a harmless dose ...
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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.