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... hope to prevent intoxication . 99 The lessons of 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 ...
... hope to prevent intoxication . 99 The lessons of 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 ...
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... one hasheesh - eater in a hun- dred can hope to emancipate himself from the thral- dom of his vice . The guests of King Alcohol , too , would make their reckoning without their host in hoping to 22 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... one hasheesh - eater in a hun- dred can hope to emancipate himself from the thral- dom of his vice . The guests of King Alcohol , too , would make their reckoning without their host in hoping to 22 THE POISON PROBLEM .
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... hope that the organism might somehow be induced to acquiesce in the quid pro quo . That hope is a delusion . The surrogate may bring a tem- porary relief , but it can not satisfy the thirst for the stronger tonic , and only serves to ...
... hope that the organism might somehow be induced to acquiesce in the quid pro quo . That hope is a delusion . The surrogate may bring a tem- porary relief , but it can not satisfy the thirst for the stronger tonic , and only serves to ...
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... hope for a radi- cal reform , they must help to eradicate the deep - rooted delusion of the stimulant fallacy - the popular error which hopes to defy the laws of Nature by the magic of intoxicating drugs , and thus secure an access of ...
... hope for a radi- cal reform , they must help to eradicate the deep - rooted delusion of the stimulant fallacy - the popular error which hopes to defy the laws of Nature by the magic of intoxicating drugs , and thus secure an access of ...
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... hope to show that we can beat them upon their own ground , for it is not difficult to make health more attractive than disease . But the most obstinate obstacle to a successful prop- agation of total abstinence principles is the drug ...
... hope to show that we can beat them upon their own ground , for it is not difficult to make health more attractive than disease . But the most obstinate obstacle to a successful prop- agation of total abstinence principles is the drug ...
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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.