The Medical Temperance Journal, Volumes 14-151883 |
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Page 14
... never varying it ; that by means of it they attain a certain degree of comfort in carrying out their labours , and that he has failed to obtain evidence which should justify him in attributing any marked harm to the habit . As a rule ...
... never varying it ; that by means of it they attain a certain degree of comfort in carrying out their labours , and that he has failed to obtain evidence which should justify him in attributing any marked harm to the habit . As a rule ...
Page 18
... never committed itself to extreme anti - opium views , confesses itself as staggered by the theory of Sir George Birdwood , that opium - smoking is in- nocuous , or even beneficial , to China- men . Sir George says : " Opium- smoking is ...
... never committed itself to extreme anti - opium views , confesses itself as staggered by the theory of Sir George Birdwood , that opium - smoking is in- nocuous , or even beneficial , to China- men . Sir George says : " Opium- smoking is ...
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... never consent to bear . " In the preface he says , " A few abuse , but far more find in opium a sense of enjoyment , of comfort , a necessity , and even a blessing . " Yet , several times in the course of the book he distinctly modifies ...
... never consent to bear . " In the preface he says , " A few abuse , but far more find in opium a sense of enjoyment , of comfort , a necessity , and even a blessing . " Yet , several times in the course of the book he distinctly modifies ...
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... never used . " The CHAIRMAN remarked that the subject , which was a cognate one to that of alcohol , had been treated by Dr. Shearer in a most thorough and exhaustive manner , and it was only due to the author that the paper should be ...
... never used . " The CHAIRMAN remarked that the subject , which was a cognate one to that of alcohol , had been treated by Dr. Shearer in a most thorough and exhaustive manner , and it was only due to the author that the paper should be ...
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... never found opium smokers incompetent to attend to their business . No doubt many opium smokers become ema- ciated ; but there did not appear to be any other ill - effects , physical or moral . He did not wish for a moment to assert ...
... never found opium smokers incompetent to attend to their business . No doubt many opium smokers become ema- ciated ; but there did not appear to be any other ill - effects , physical or moral . He did not wish for a moment to assert ...
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Page 192 - Could the youth, to whom the flavour of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life or the entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will, — to see his...
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Page 192 - ... for this night's repetition of the folly ; could he feel the body of the death out of which I cry hourly with feebler and feebler outcry to be delivered — it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth — " And not undo 'era To suffer WET DAMNATION to run through 'em.
Page 192 - ... look into my desolation, and be made to understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a precipice with open eyes and a passive will — to see his destruction, and have no power to stop it, and yet to feel it all the way emanating from himself ; to perceive all goodness emptied out of him, and yet not to be able to forget a time when it was otherwise ; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own...
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Page 151 - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.
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