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... tion of alcoholic drinks has consumed half a billion bushels of cereals , every handful of which has strewn the path of coming generations with the seeds of mis- ery and disease . The pious belief that the excess of every social evil ...
... tion of alcoholic drinks has consumed half a billion bushels of cereals , every handful of which has strewn the path of coming generations with the seeds of mis- ery and disease . The pious belief that the excess of every social evil ...
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... tion - Daily poison doses - Predisposing causes of disease - Lon- gevity - Physical degeneration - Ancient athletes — Hereditary transmissions - Insanity statistics - Shah Nahum's secret - Ab- stinent nations - Turks and Nubians - Their ...
... tion - Daily poison doses - Predisposing causes of disease - Lon- gevity - Physical degeneration - Ancient athletes — Hereditary transmissions - Insanity statistics - Shah Nahum's secret - Ab- stinent nations - Turks and Nubians - Their ...
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... tion - Temperance text - books - Lecture bureaus - Chances of co- operation - Pamphlets and tracts - Conditions of Success - Pro- scription - A social remedy -- Healthier pastimes - A lesson from history - The Olympic games - The ...
... tion - Temperance text - books - Lecture bureaus - Chances of co- operation - Pamphlets and tracts - Conditions of Success - Pro- scription - A social remedy -- Healthier pastimes - A lesson from history - The Olympic games - The ...
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... tion my friend offered to take him back , and , on con- dition of keeping him away from his parents , was permitted to take care of him , and finally made him his office - boy . His parents were ascertained to be both habitual drunkards ...
... tion my friend offered to take him back , and , on con- dition of keeping him away from his parents , was permitted to take care of him , and finally made him his office - boy . His parents were ascertained to be both habitual drunkards ...
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... tion of the stimulus is as regularly followed by a dis- tressing reaction . And only then the slave of the unnatural habit becomes conscious of that peculiar craving which is entirely distinct from the prompt- ings of a healthy appetite ...
... tion of the stimulus is as regularly followed by a dis- tressing reaction . And only then the slave of the unnatural habit becomes conscious of that peculiar craving which is entirely distinct from the prompt- ings of a healthy appetite ...
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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.