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... cook would hardly induce his customers to stupefy and bestialize themselves with his compounds . There are no milk - topers , no suicidal potato - eaters , no victims of a chronic porridge THE SECRET OF THE ALCOHOL HABIT . 19.
... cook would hardly induce his customers to stupefy and bestialize themselves with his compounds . There are no milk - topers , no suicidal potato - eaters , no victims of a chronic porridge THE SECRET OF THE ALCOHOL HABIT . 19.
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Felix Leopold Oswald. potato - eaters , no victims of a chronic porridge - passion . In spite of occasional surfeits , the craving for aliment- ary substances increases and decreases with the needs of the organism , while that of the ...
Felix Leopold Oswald. potato - eaters , no victims of a chronic porridge - passion . In spite of occasional surfeits , the craving for aliment- ary substances increases and decreases with the needs of the organism , while that of the ...
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... victims of their altars , " says Lessing , and the stimulant vice seems , in fact , to weaken not only the physical constitution of its votaries , but their moral power of resistance , and often even the faculty of real- izing the ...
... victims of their altars , " says Lessing , and the stimulant vice seems , in fact , to weaken not only the physical constitution of its votaries , but their moral power of resistance , and often even the faculty of real- izing the ...
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... victim either to in- crease the quantity of the wonted tonic , or else to resort to a stronger poison . The experience of individual drunkards probably corresponds to the international development of the alcohol habit . Its first ...
... victim either to in- crease the quantity of the wonted tonic , or else to resort to a stronger poison . The experience of individual drunkards probably corresponds to the international development of the alcohol habit . Its first ...
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... victims chiefly from the ranks of the veteran coffee drinkers . In Turkey , too , strong coffee has prepared the way for tobacco and opium . In Switzerland arsenic eaters have ex- changed their kirschwasser for a more potent tonic ...
... victims chiefly from the ranks of the veteran coffee drinkers . In Turkey , too , strong coffee has prepared the way for tobacco and opium . In Switzerland arsenic eaters have ex- changed their kirschwasser for a more potent tonic ...
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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.