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Page 5
... less recognized , but until lately the efforts to that purpose were di- rected to the suppression of the symptoms rather than to the removal of the cause . There was a time when the belief in the necessity of alcoholic stimu- lation ...
... less recognized , but until lately the efforts to that purpose were di- rected to the suppression of the symptoms rather than to the removal of the cause . There was a time when the belief in the necessity of alcoholic stimu- lation ...
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... less necessary to provide special safeguards . But , though less repulsive than other poisons , such sub- stances are never positively attractive , and often ( like verdigris , potassium , etc. ) perceptibly nauseous . Vege- table ...
... less necessary to provide special safeguards . But , though less repulsive than other poisons , such sub- stances are never positively attractive , and often ( like verdigris , potassium , etc. ) perceptibly nauseous . Vege- table ...
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... less undoubted fact that there have been manful , industrious , and intelligent nations of total abstainers , would be an almost sufficient refutation of that infer- ence , which is sometimes qualified by the assertion that the tonic ...
... less undoubted fact that there have been manful , industrious , and intelligent nations of total abstainers , would be an almost sufficient refutation of that infer- ence , which is sometimes qualified by the assertion that the tonic ...
Page 29
... less uncontrollable agencies . the The first venders of toxic stimulants ( like our quack - medicine philanthropists ) had a personal in- terest in disseminating the poison - habit . Reform attempts were met by appeals to the convivial ...
... less uncontrollable agencies . the The first venders of toxic stimulants ( like our quack - medicine philanthropists ) had a personal in- terest in disseminating the poison - habit . Reform attempts were met by appeals to the convivial ...
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... less dangerous foe . But each repetition of that factitious fever is followed by a reaction that suspends the prophylactic effect of the stimulus , and sooner or later the total exhaustion of the vital energies not only leaves the ...
... less dangerous foe . But each repetition of that factitious fever is followed by a reaction that suspends the prophylactic effect of the stimulus , and sooner or later the total exhaustion of the vital energies not only leaves the ...
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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.