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... perseveringly , with all the caution and delib- erate determination that he can command , and if he could live long enough he would just as certainly be- come a drunkard - get to a point where he 24 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... perseveringly , with all the caution and delib- erate determination that he can command , and if he could live long enough he would just as certainly be- come a drunkard - get to a point where he 24 THE POISON PROBLEM .
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... lives on the dogmas of the old stimulant theory till they have answered the objec- tions of the naturalistic school . Drastic drugs are not wholly useless . There are two or three forms of disease which have ( thus far ) not proved ...
... lives on the dogmas of the old stimulant theory till they have answered the objec- tions of the naturalistic school . Drastic drugs are not wholly useless . There are two or three forms of disease which have ( thus far ) not proved ...
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... live within their means , but at a certain hour they are every day at- tacked by a bear . Before the good man can mend his jacket , before the good wife has cooked her din- ner , before the boys have finished their spelling - lesson ...
... live within their means , but at a certain hour they are every day at- tacked by a bear . Before the good man can mend his jacket , before the good wife has cooked her din- ner , before the boys have finished their spelling - lesson ...
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... lives of 6,000 per- sons , most of them reckless young drunkards , who thus anticipate the natural term of their lives by about twenty years . But at the very least , two per cent of our population is addicted to the constant use of ...
... lives of 6,000 per- sons , most of them reckless young drunkards , who thus anticipate the natural term of their lives by about twenty years . But at the very least , two per cent of our population is addicted to the constant use of ...
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... lives . When the death - list had reached a total of 100,000 , the clamors for peace became so importunate that the representa- tives of our nation were several times on the point of abandoning the cause of the most righteous war ever ...
... lives . When the death - list had reached a total of 100,000 , the clamors for peace became so importunate that the representa- tives of our nation were several times on the point of abandoning the cause of the most righteous war ever ...
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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.