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... FELIX L. OSWALD , M. D. AUTHOR OF " PHYSICAL EDUCATION , " " HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES , " ETO . " Light is Help from Above . " - G . E. LESSING . NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1887 BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY . All rights reserved .
... FELIX L. OSWALD , M. D. AUTHOR OF " PHYSICAL EDUCATION , " " HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES , " ETO . " Light is Help from Above . " - G . E. LESSING . NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1887 BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY . All rights reserved .
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... remedy . In spite of all our philanthropists have done to stem or deflect the current , the Gift- quelle , the dire ... Remedy after remedy has been proposed , tested , and changed for another , doomed to a similar failure . And yet the ...
... remedy . In spite of all our philanthropists have done to stem or deflect the current , the Gift- quelle , the dire ... Remedy after remedy has been proposed , tested , and changed for another , doomed to a similar failure . And yet the ...
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... REMEDIES . · Educational reforms - Futility of half - way measures - Total absti- nence - Temperate nations - Spain under ... remedy -- Healthier pastimes - A lesson from history - The Olympic games - The pleasure resorts - A lesser evil ...
... REMEDIES . · Educational reforms - Futility of half - way measures - Total absti- nence - Temperate nations - Spain under ... remedy -- Healthier pastimes - A lesson from history - The Olympic games - The pleasure resorts - A lesser evil ...
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... remedy for various complaints , though Belzoni mentions that it makes its votaries more sub- ject to the attacks of the Nile fever . According to Prof. Vambéry , the Syrian Druses pray , though ap- parently in vain , to be delivered ...
... remedy for various complaints , though Belzoni mentions that it makes its votaries more sub- ject to the attacks of the Nile fever . According to Prof. Vambéry , the Syrian Druses pray , though ap- parently in vain , to be delivered ...
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... remedy . " - Bichat . THE undoubted antiquity of the poison - vice has induced several able physiologists to assume the hy- gienic necessity of artificial stimulation . But the not less undoubted fact that there have been manful ...
... remedy . " - Bichat . THE undoubted antiquity of the poison - vice has induced several able physiologists to assume the hy- gienic necessity of artificial stimulation . But the not less undoubted fact that there have been manful ...
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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.