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... stimulants is no longer confined to the trinitarian subjects of the sul- tan . Since the harvest - time of 1873 , while Ireland and eastern Brazil were struggling with famine , and thousands of our fellow men in Persia , Armenia , Cash ...
... stimulants is no longer confined to the trinitarian subjects of the sul- tan . Since the harvest - time of 1873 , while Ireland and eastern Brazil were struggling with famine , and thousands of our fellow men in Persia , Armenia , Cash ...
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... . For , by and by the jaded organism fails to respond to the spur ; the stimulant palls , but the hankering for stimulation remains , and the toper has to satisfy his thirst either by increasing the quantum of 6 PREFACE .
... . For , by and by the jaded organism fails to respond to the spur ; the stimulant palls , but the hankering for stimulation remains , and the toper has to satisfy his thirst either by increasing the quantum of 6 PREFACE .
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... stimulants whatever ? Is it not mere mockery to prohibit the sale of small beer , and permit any enterprising dis- tiller to deluge the country with poison by selling his brandy as a " digestive tonic , " and elude the inconven- ience ...
... stimulants whatever ? Is it not mere mockery to prohibit the sale of small beer , and permit any enterprising dis- tiller to deluge the country with poison by selling his brandy as a " digestive tonic , " and elude the inconven- ience ...
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... stimulants " -Claude Bernard's discovery - Tea and coffee -Tobacco - Small - beer - The road to ruin paved with so ... stimulant - Haller's conjecture - National poisons - A suggestive fact - Interchangeable vices - Narcotics and ...
... stimulants " -Claude Bernard's discovery - Tea and coffee -Tobacco - Small - beer - The road to ruin paved with so ... stimulant - Haller's conjecture - National poisons - A suggestive fact - Interchangeable vices - Narcotics and ...
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... Stimulants and narcotics - New poi- sons - Nature's ultimatum- " Tolerance " -The indirect costs of the poison - habit - Lager beer - Startling facts - The poison - habit in all its forms an unmixed evil - Sophisms of the compromise ...
... Stimulants and narcotics - New poi- sons - Nature's ultimatum- " Tolerance " -The indirect costs of the poison - habit - Lager beer - Startling facts - The poison - habit in all its forms an unmixed evil - Sophisms of the compromise ...
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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.