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... practice . Their motto was " Moderation . ' Be temperate in all things . Keep the safe middle course . A dangerous fallacy lurks in those precepts . It may be safe to compromise conflicting duties , as chari- ty and economy , patriotism ...
... practice . Their motto was " Moderation . ' Be temperate in all things . Keep the safe middle course . A dangerous fallacy lurks in those precepts . It may be safe to compromise conflicting duties , as chari- ty and economy , patriotism ...
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... practice the advantages of uncompromising abstinence . Their motto was " Re- pudiation . " A good deal of learning has lately been paraded in demonstrating the legal necessity of distinguishing between crimes and vices , between direct ...
... practice the advantages of uncompromising abstinence . Their motto was " Re- pudiation . " A good deal of learning has lately been paraded in demonstrating the legal necessity of distinguishing between crimes and vices , between direct ...
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... practice - Untenable dogmas - Our medical text - books - Practical tests - The lessons of homoeopathy -A medical dilemma - Obstinate facts - The safest way - An ugly alternative - Dr . Sewall's argument - Medical prescriptions as a ...
... practice - Untenable dogmas - Our medical text - books - Practical tests - The lessons of homoeopathy -A medical dilemma - Obstinate facts - The safest way - An ugly alternative - Dr . Sewall's argument - Medical prescriptions as a ...
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... practice will ever save the poison - slave from the penalties of his sins against Nature . Each full indulgence is followed by a full measure of woful retributions , while a half- indulgence results in a half - depression to the verge ...
... practice will ever save the poison - slave from the penalties of his sins against Nature . Each full indulgence is followed by a full measure of woful retributions , while a half- indulgence results in a half - depression to the verge ...
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... in fact , to weaken not only the physical constitution of its votaries , but their moral power of resistance , and often even the faculty of real- izing the perils of their practice , as if the THE SECRET OF THE ALCOHOL HABIT . 23.
... in fact , to weaken not only the physical constitution of its votaries , but their moral power of resistance , and often even the faculty of real- izing the perils of their practice , as if the THE SECRET OF THE ALCOHOL HABIT . 23.
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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.