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Page 36
... physicians had begun to suspect that the 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 ...
... physicians had begun to suspect that the 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 ...
Page 40
... Physicians have no right to experiment on the health of their patients . They have no right to expect that we shall stake our lives on the dogmas of the old stimulant theory till they have answered the objections of the naturalistic ...
... Physicians have no right to experiment on the health of their patients . They have no right to expect that we shall stake our lives on the dogmas of the old stimulant theory till they have answered the objections of the naturalistic ...
Page 41
... physicians generally become the most eminent who have the soonest emancipated themselves from the tyranny of the schools of physic . Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease , and cause us to blush at our prescriptions ...
... physicians generally become the most eminent who have the soonest emancipated themselves from the tyranny of the schools of physic . Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease , and cause us to blush at our prescriptions ...
Page 68
... physicians call a predisposition to organic disorders , finds an ally in alcohol that enables it to defy the expurgative efforts of Nature . A consumptive toper will fail to derive any benefit from a change of climate . A dram ...
... physicians call a predisposition to organic disorders , finds an ally in alcohol that enables it to defy the expurgative efforts of Nature . A consumptive toper will fail to derive any benefit from a change of climate . A dram ...
Page 78
... physicians have ceased to prescribe for the last thirty years . Drastic drugs of the more virulent kinds have gone out of fashion almost as completely as venesection . Doctors cease to prescribe them , partly because they can not induce ...
... physicians have ceased to prescribe for the last thirty years . Drastic drugs of the more virulent kinds have gone out of fashion almost as completely as venesection . Doctors cease to prescribe them , partly because they can not induce ...
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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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Poison Problem, Or, The Cause and Cure of Intemperance |
| Author | Felix Leopold Oswald |
| Publisher | Appleton, 1887 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 27 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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