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... quantity of the wonted tonic , or else to resort to a stronger poison . The experience of individual drunkards probably corresponds to the international development of the alcohol habit . Its first devotees contented themselves with ...
... quantity of the wonted tonic , or else to resort to a stronger poison . The experience of individual drunkards probably corresponds to the international development of the alcohol habit . Its first devotees contented themselves with ...
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... quantities of stimulat- ing fluids . The biographer of Richard Porson , the great classic scholar , says that his poison - thirst was " so outrageous that he can not be considered a mere willful drunkard ; one must believe that he was ...
... quantities of stimulat- ing fluids . The biographer of Richard Porson , the great classic scholar , says that his poison - thirst was " so outrageous that he can not be considered a mere willful drunkard ; one must believe that he was ...
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... quantity of wine that would kill a mod- ern toper ; but they confined themselves to that one stimulant , and showed sense enough to keep it from their boys , who had a chance to fortify their consti- tutions with gymnastics before they ...
... quantity of wine that would kill a mod- ern toper ; but they confined themselves to that one stimulant , and showed sense enough to keep it from their boys , who had a chance to fortify their consti- tutions with gymnastics before they ...
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... quantities of the stimulant we certainly diminish its power for mis- chief , but as long as the dose is large enough to pro- duce any appreciable effect , that effect is a deleteri- ous one . ( Appendix V. ) Various diseases , and that ...
... quantities of the stimulant we certainly diminish its power for mis- chief , but as long as the dose is large enough to pro- duce any appreciable effect , that effect is a deleteri- ous one . ( Appendix V. ) Various diseases , and that ...
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... modifications and compounds , there is no such thing as a harmless tonic . Alcohol especially is , in all its disguises , the most implacable enemy of the human organism . In large quantities it is a lethal 62 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... modifications and compounds , there is no such thing as a harmless tonic . Alcohol especially is , in all its disguises , the most implacable enemy of the human organism . In large quantities it is a lethal 62 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.