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... 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 of the Sunday law by consigning his liquor to a drug - store ? Wherever the ...
... 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 of the Sunday law by consigning his liquor to a drug - store ? Wherever the ...
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... beer - gardens , have become the preparatory schools of the rum - shop . Taught by the logic of such experiences , the friends of reform will at last recognize the truth , that the " temperate use " of alcohol is but the first stage of ...
... beer - gardens , have become the preparatory schools of the rum - shop . Taught by the logic of such experiences , the friends of reform will at last recognize the truth , that the " temperate use " of alcohol is but the first stage of ...
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... beer - The road to ruin paved with so - called temperance drinks - Cider and beer - Suggestive statistics - A lesson from Nature - Total abstinence the only safe plan CHAPTER II . THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . PAGE ยท 13 The exegesis of ...
... beer - The road to ruin paved with so - called temperance drinks - Cider and beer - Suggestive statistics - A lesson from Nature - Total abstinence the only safe plan CHAPTER II . THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . PAGE ยท 13 The exegesis of ...
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... beer - Startling facts - The poison - habit in all its forms an unmixed evil - Sophisms of the compromise plan CHAPTER V. ALCOEOLIC DRUGS . Obsolete doctrines - Theory and practice - Untenable dogmas - Our medical text - books ...
... beer - Startling facts - The poison - habit in all its forms an unmixed evil - Sophisms of the compromise plan CHAPTER V. ALCOEOLIC DRUGS . Obsolete doctrines - Theory and practice - Untenable dogmas - Our medical text - books ...
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... beer , chloral , and pat- ent " bitters " on the Atlantic slope . The French have added absinthe to their wines and liquors , the Turks hasheesh and opiates to strong coffee . North Ameri- ca has adopted tea from China , coffee from ...
... beer , chloral , and pat- ent " bitters " on the Atlantic slope . The French have added absinthe to their wines and liquors , the Turks hasheesh and opiates to strong coffee . North Ameri- ca has adopted tea from China , coffee from ...
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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...โ
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.โ
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.โ