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Page 7
... moderate conflagration ; one might as well recommend a moderate use of the privilege to ignite a barrel of gunpowder . We can not tolerate the use of intoxicants and hope to prevent intoxication . 99 The lessons of experience , if not ...
... moderate conflagration ; one might as well recommend a moderate use of the privilege to ignite a barrel of gunpowder . We can not tolerate the use of intoxicants and hope to prevent intoxication . 99 The lessons of experience , if not ...
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... moderate quantities of the milder stimulants - must , hydromel , and light beer . But such tonics soon began to pall , and the jaded ap- petite of the toper soon resorted to strong wines , to hard cider , and finally to brandy and rum ...
... moderate quantities of the milder stimulants - must , hydromel , and light beer . But such tonics soon began to pall , and the jaded ap- petite of the toper soon resorted to strong wines , to hard cider , and finally to brandy and rum ...
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... moderate use of alcoholic drinks during a period of five years is sufficient to permeate the substance of the liver with fatty infiltrations , and that the liver of old drunkards undergoes changes which make it practically a lump of ...
... moderate use of alcoholic drinks during a period of five years is sufficient to permeate the substance of the liver with fatty infiltrations , and that the liver of old drunkards undergoes changes which make it practically a lump of ...
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... moderate perjury . Our lager - beer enthusiasts might just as well advise us to introduce a milder brand of rattle- snakes . The alcohol - habit , in all its forms and in every stage of its development , is a degrading vice . CHAPTER IV ...
... moderate perjury . Our lager - beer enthusiasts might just as well advise us to introduce a milder brand of rattle- snakes . The alcohol - habit , in all its forms and in every stage of its development , is a degrading vice . CHAPTER IV ...
Page 66
... the limits of facts applying to all conditions of life , and assume a minimum of four years . A total of 4,120,000 years for the population of the United States is therefore a moderate estimate of 66 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... the limits of facts applying to all conditions of life , and assume a minimum of four years . A total of 4,120,000 years for the population of the United States is therefore a moderate estimate of 66 THE POISON PROBLEM .
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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.