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... kind of poi- son can be perverted into an unnatural craving after the same substance . Poisons are either repulsive or insipid . Arsenic , sugar - of - lead , and antimony belong to the latter class . To the first - born children of ...
... kind of poi- son can be perverted into an unnatural craving after the same substance . Poisons are either repulsive or insipid . Arsenic , sugar - of - lead , and antimony belong to the latter class . To the first - born children of ...
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... kind of hemlock that first ex- cites and then depresses the cerebral functions , exces- sive garrulity being the principal symptom of the ex- alted stage of intoxication . A decoction of the com- mon fly - toadstool ( agaricus maculatus ) ...
... kind of hemlock that first ex- cites and then depresses the cerebral functions , exces- sive garrulity being the principal symptom of the ex- alted stage of intoxication . A decoction of the com- mon fly - toadstool ( agaricus maculatus ) ...
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... kind of tonic drugs , nicotine , narcotic infusions , hasheesh , the milder opi- ates , etc. , may thus initiate a stimulant habit with an unlimited capacity of development ; and there is no doubt that international traffic has relaxed ...
... kind of tonic drugs , nicotine , narcotic infusions , hasheesh , the milder opi- ates , etc. , may thus initiate a stimulant habit with an unlimited capacity of development ; and there is no doubt that international traffic has relaxed ...
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... kind are cheapest , but in the most commercial countries , western France , Great Britain , and North America . Hence also the fallacy of the brewer's ar- gument , that the use of lager beer would prevent the dissemination of the opium ...
... kind are cheapest , but in the most commercial countries , western France , Great Britain , and North America . Hence also the fallacy of the brewer's ar- gument , that the use of lager beer would prevent the dissemination of the opium ...
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... by a process of her own , and that all art can do for him is to give that process the best possible chance , and prevent a willful interruption of it - instead of saying anything of the kind , THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . 39.
... by a process of her own , and that all art can do for him is to give that process the best possible chance , and prevent a willful interruption of it - instead of saying anything of the kind , THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . 39.
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The Poison Problem: Or the Cause and Cure of Intemperance (Classic Reprint) Felix L. Oswald No preview available - 2018 |
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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.