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... vice , and of all besetting vices the alcohol habit is the most inevitably progressive . An unnatural appetite has no natural limits . For weeks , sometimes for months , young topers have to struggle against the protests of a better ...
... vice , and of all besetting vices the alcohol habit is the most inevitably progressive . An unnatural appetite has no natural limits . For weeks , sometimes for months , young topers have to struggle against the protests of a better ...
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... poison - vice , and the financial resources of a tithe - paying Christian were thought of more impor- tance than his health ? Judging from secular stand- ards , we should be inclined to think that alcohol is doing more mischief in a ...
... poison - vice , and the financial resources of a tithe - paying Christian were thought of more impor- tance than his health ? Judging from secular stand- ards , we should be inclined to think that alcohol is doing more mischief in a ...
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... death are sold as panaceas . " Brandy - doctors , " as Benjamin Rush used to call them , abuse the confidence of their pa- tients by inoculating them with the seeds of a life- blighting vice . Thousands of topers owe their ruin to a ...
... death are sold as panaceas . " Brandy - doctors , " as Benjamin Rush used to call them , abuse the confidence of their pa- tients by inoculating them with the seeds of a life- blighting vice . Thousands of topers owe their ruin to a ...
Page 11
... vice - Antiquity of the poison - habit - Wine probably the first stimulant - Haller's conjecture - National poisons - A suggestive fact - Interchangeable vices - Narcotics and alcoholic drinks - Identical in their essential effects ...
... vice - Antiquity of the poison - habit - Wine probably the first stimulant - Haller's conjecture - National poisons - A suggestive fact - Interchangeable vices - Narcotics and alcoholic drinks - Identical in their essential effects ...
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... vice had not almost deadened the faculty of understanding the monitions of our physical conscience . It is true that the stimulant - thirst of the confirmed drunkard far exceeds the urgency of the most impetuous instincts ; but by that ...
... vice had not almost deadened the faculty of understanding the monitions of our physical conscience . It is true that the stimulant - thirst of the confirmed drunkard far exceeds the urgency of the most impetuous instincts ; but by that ...
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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.