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... progress of a besetting 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 ...
... progress of a besetting 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 ...
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... progress , since the time when the sumptuary laws of Lorenzo de Medici were defeated by street riots and a shrieking proces- sion of the Florentine tavern - keepers . The efforts of such agitators are seconded by the instinct of ...
... progress , since the time when the sumptuary laws of Lorenzo de Medici were defeated by street riots and a shrieking proces- sion of the Florentine tavern - keepers . The efforts of such agitators are seconded by the instinct of ...
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Felix Leopold Oswald. non curat ferram ignis curat . ) But with the progress of the physiological sciences the conviction gradually gained ground that disease itself is a reconstructive process , and that the suppression of the symptoms ...
Felix Leopold Oswald. non curat ferram ignis curat . ) But with the progress of the physiological sciences the conviction gradually gained ground that disease itself is a reconstructive process , and that the suppression of the symptoms ...
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... progress of other disorders . The vital process can not compromise with two diseases at the same time . A fit of gastric spasms interrupts a tooth- ache . A toothache relieves a sick headache . The 4 THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . 37.
... progress of other disorders . The vital process can not compromise with two diseases at the same time . A fit of gastric spasms interrupts a tooth- ache . A toothache relieves a sick headache . The 4 THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . 37.
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... progress of the alcohol fever ( the feverish activity of the organism in its effort to rid itself of a life - endangering poison ) Nature has to suspend her operations against a less dangerous foe . But each repetition of that ...
... progress of the alcohol fever ( the feverish activity of the organism in its effort to rid itself of a life - endangering poison ) Nature has to suspend her operations against a less dangerous foe . But each repetition of 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.