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... legislation . The necessity of controlling the grosser excesses of intemperance was always more or less recognized , but until lately the efforts to that purpose were di- rected to the suppression of the symptoms rather than to the ...
... legislation . The necessity of controlling the grosser excesses of intemperance was always more or less recognized , but until lately the efforts to that purpose were di- rected to the suppression of the symptoms rather than to the ...
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... ways been pursued across the boundaries of such dis- tinctions ; or , more properly speaking , the varying definitions of good and evil have ever biased the pre- vailing theories as to the proper sphere of legislation . PREFACE . 7.
... ways been pursued across the boundaries of such dis- tinctions ; or , more properly speaking , the varying definitions of good and evil have ever biased the pre- vailing theories as to the proper sphere of legislation . PREFACE . 7.
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Felix Leopold Oswald. vailing theories as to the proper sphere of legislation . When the eternal welfare of millions was supposed to depend on their conformity to certain mysterious dogmas , and the degradation of the body was thought to ...
Felix Leopold Oswald. vailing theories as to the proper sphere of legislation . When the eternal welfare of millions was supposed to depend on their conformity to certain mysterious dogmas , and the degradation of the body was thought to ...
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... legislation be furthered by compromise measures . We must banish alcohol from the sick - room as well as from the banquet - hall . Dr. N. S. Davis , ex - President of the American Medical Association , confesses to having found " no ...
... legislation be furthered by compromise measures . We must banish alcohol from the sick - room as well as from the banquet - hall . Dr. N. S. Davis , ex - President of the American Medical Association , confesses to having found " no ...
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... legislation - Vices and crimes - Varying definitions of crime - Prevention easier than suppression - Magnitude of the evil - The poison - traffic not a self - correcting abuse - Lesser evils - Efficacy of prohibitive legislation ...
... legislation - Vices and crimes - Varying definitions of crime - Prevention easier than suppression - Magnitude of the evil - The poison - traffic not a self - correcting abuse - Lesser evils - Efficacy of prohibitive legislation ...
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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.