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... results of our sins against Nature with the original arrangements of Providence . But the strang- est instance of that mistake ... result of an innate propensity - deplorable in its collateral conse- quences , but withal entitled to the ...
... results of our sins against Nature with the original arrangements of Providence . But the strang- est instance of that mistake ... result of an innate propensity - deplorable in its collateral conse- quences , but withal entitled to the ...
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... resulting in agonizing reactions , a feast of wholesome food is followed by a state of considerable physical comfort ... results in a half - depression to the verge of world - weary despondency , or fails to satisfy the lin- gering ...
... resulting in agonizing reactions , a feast of wholesome food is followed by a state of considerable physical comfort ... results in a half - depression to the verge of world - weary despondency , or fails to satisfy the lin- gering ...
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... result if the stimulant has been administered in the form of a medical prescription . Strong drink is a mocker , in disease as well as in health , and the road to the rum - shop leads through the dispensary as often as through the beer ...
... result if the stimulant has been administered in the form of a medical prescription . Strong drink is a mocker , in disease as well as in health , and the road to the rum - shop leads through the dispensary as often as through the beer ...
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... result . Instead of telling the im - patient that he must commit himself into the hands of Nature , that she will cure him in her own good time , by a process of her own , and that all art can do for him is to give that process the best ...
... result . Instead of telling the im - patient that he must commit himself into the hands of Nature , that she will cure him in her own good time , by a process of her own , and that all art can do for him is to give that process the best ...
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... results of homoeopathy ; what I now claim with respect to it is , that a wise and beneficent Providence is using it to expose a deep delusion . In the result of homoeopathic practice we have evidence in amount , and of a character ...
... results of homoeopathy ; what I now claim with respect to it is , that a wise and beneficent Providence is using it to expose a deep delusion . In the result of homoeopathic practice we have evidence in amount , and of a character ...
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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.