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... medicines , " i . e . , virulent stimulants , has already begun to be rec- ognized as a suggestive illustration of that rule . A child's hankering after sweetmeats is only an appar- ent exception , for , as Dr. Schrodt observes , the ...
... medicines , " i . e . , virulent stimulants , has already begun to be rec- ognized as a suggestive illustration of that rule . A child's hankering after sweetmeats is only an appar- ent exception , for , as Dr. Schrodt observes , the ...
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... medicine philanthropists ) had a personal in- terest in disseminating the poison - habit . Reform attempts were met by appeals to the convivial inter- ests of the stimulant - dupe , by the seduction of minors , by charges of asceticism ...
... medicine philanthropists ) had a personal in- terest in disseminating the poison - habit . Reform attempts were met by appeals to the convivial inter- ests of the stimulant - dupe , by the seduction of minors , by charges of asceticism ...
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... medicine , according to the popular impres- sion , can not be very effective unless it is very repul- sive . Our children thus learn to mistrust the voice of their natural instincts . They try to rely on the aid of specious arts ...
... medicine , according to the popular impres- sion , can not be very effective unless it is very repul- sive . Our children thus learn to mistrust the voice of their natural instincts . They try to rely on the aid of specious arts ...
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... medicine has deceived us . The evidence is full and complete . It does not consist merely of a few isolated cases , whose recovery might be attributed to fortui- tous circumstances , but it is a chain of testimony forti- fied by every ...
... medicine has deceived us . The evidence is full and complete . It does not consist merely of a few isolated cases , whose recovery might be attributed to fortui- tous circumstances , but it is a chain of testimony forti- fied by every ...
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... medicines and poisons— in fact , everything which can be swallowed and ab- sorbed , however foreign it may be to the normal con- dition of the body , and however injurious to its func- tions . On the other hand , from no definition that ...
... medicines and poisons— in fact , everything which can be swallowed and ab- sorbed , however foreign it may be to the normal con- dition of the body , and however injurious to its func- tions . On the other hand , from no definition that ...
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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.