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... liquors has increased since 1850 at the average yearly rate of three and one third per cent ; in France , two per cent ; in Switzerland , five and a half per cent ; in northern Germany ( in- cluding Saxony and Alsace - Lorraine ) the ...
... liquors has increased since 1850 at the average yearly rate of three and one third per cent ; in France , two per cent ; in Switzerland , five and a half per cent ; in northern Germany ( in- cluding Saxony and Alsace - Lorraine ) the ...
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... liquor traffic still swells the tide of revenue and dis- ease . Remedy after remedy has been proposed , tested , and changed for another , doomed to a similar failure . And yet the general tendency of those changes reveals an advance in ...
... liquor traffic still swells the tide of revenue and dis- ease . Remedy after remedy has been proposed , tested , and changed for another , doomed to a similar failure . And yet the general tendency of those changes reveals an advance in ...
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... liquor than with . " Dr. James R. Nichols , editor of the Boston " Journal of Chemistry , " records his convic- tions that " the banishment of alcohol would not de- prive us of a single one of the indispensable agents which modern ...
... liquor than with . " Dr. James R. Nichols , editor of the Boston " Journal of Chemistry , " records his convic- tions that " the banishment of alcohol would not de- prive us of a single one of the indispensable agents which modern ...
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... liquors is nearly always contracted in the years of immaturity , when the def- erence to social precedents is apt to overcome the warnings of instinct ; but that those who have escaped or not yielded to the temptations of that period ...
... liquors is nearly always contracted in the years of immaturity , when the def- erence to social precedents is apt to overcome the warnings of instinct ; but that those who have escaped or not yielded to the temptations of that period ...
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... liquors , the Turks hasheesh and opiates to strong coffee . North Ameri- ca has adopted tea from China , coffee from Arabia ( or originally from Ceylon ) , tobacco from the Carib- bean savages , high - wines from France and Spain , and ...
... liquors , the Turks hasheesh and opiates to strong coffee . North Ameri- ca has adopted tea from China , coffee from Arabia ( or originally from Ceylon ) , tobacco from the Carib- bean savages , high - wines from France and Spain , and ...
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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.