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... true that the stimulant - thirst of the confirmed drunkard far exceeds the urgency of the most impetuous instincts ; but by that very excessiveness and persistence the far- gone development of the alcohol habit proves what the mode of ...
... true that the stimulant - thirst of the confirmed drunkard far exceeds the urgency of the most impetuous instincts ; but by that very excessiveness and persistence the far- gone development of the alcohol habit proves what the mode of ...
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... the evil , and , true to her supreme law of preserving existence at any cost , prolongs even a wretched life by adapting the organism to the exi- gencies of an abnormal habit . She still continues her 18 THE POISON PROBLEM .
... the evil , and , true to her supreme law of preserving existence at any cost , prolongs even a wretched life by adapting the organism to the exi- gencies of an abnormal habit . She still continues her 18 THE POISON PROBLEM .
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... true , and should ever be borne in mind , that such is the sensibility of the stomach of the re- formed drunkard , that a repetition of the use of alco- hol in the slightest degree , and in any form , under any circumstances , revives ...
... true , and should ever be borne in mind , that such is the sensibility of the stomach of the re- formed drunkard , that a repetition of the use of alco- hol in the slightest degree , and in any form , under any circumstances , revives ...
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... true healing art consists in the removal of the cause , and that where diseases have been caused by unnatural habits , the reform of those habits is a better plan than the old counter - poison method ; when homoeopathy proved ...
... true healing art consists in the removal of the cause , and that where diseases have been caused by unnatural habits , the reform of those habits is a better plan than the old counter - poison method ; when homoeopathy proved ...
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... true , " says Dr. Jennings , " that the human system , when disturbed and deranged in its natural operations , becomes suicidal in its action ; such a view presents an anomaly in the universe of God's physical government . It is not in ...
... true , " says Dr. Jennings , " that the human system , when disturbed and deranged in its natural operations , becomes suicidal in its action ; such a view presents an anomaly in the universe of God's physical government . It is not in ...
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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.