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Page 71
... cent of the inmates of such establishments as county infirmaries , charity hospitals , almshouses , poor - houses , and lunatic asylums . Prisons proper — that is , institutions for the cure of moral disorders - are filled with patients ...
... cent of the inmates of such establishments as county infirmaries , charity hospitals , almshouses , poor - houses , and lunatic asylums . Prisons proper — that is , institutions for the cure of moral disorders - are filled with patients ...
Page 73
... cent for Great Britain , Commissioner Halliday fifteen per cent for the United States , and Dr. Bowditch eighteen per cent for the State of Mas- 7 THE COST OF INTEMPERANCE . 73.
... cent for Great Britain , Commissioner Halliday fifteen per cent for the United States , and Dr. Bowditch eighteen per cent for the State of Mas- 7 THE COST OF INTEMPERANCE . 73.
Page 74
Felix Leopold Oswald. Dr. Bowditch eighteen per cent for the State of Mas- sachusetts alone . Let us assume the minimum of fifteen per cent . The total direct cost of the poison- vice ( without including tobacco and other narcotic ...
Felix Leopold Oswald. Dr. Bowditch eighteen per cent for the State of Mas- sachusetts alone . Let us assume the minimum of fifteen per cent . The total direct cost of the poison- vice ( without including tobacco and other narcotic ...
Page 75
... cent would be spent on other vices . Fifteen per cent more would probably be wasted for frivolous purposes - innocent , as compared with the crime of the poison - traffic , but still , on the whole , amounting to a loss of national re ...
... cent would be spent on other vices . Fifteen per cent more would probably be wasted for frivolous purposes - innocent , as compared with the crime of the poison - traffic , but still , on the whole , amounting to a loss of national re ...
Page 80
... cent of all confirmed topers owe their ruin to the after - effects of a medical prescrip- tion . 2. A single dose of alcoholic drugs is sufficient to reawaken the dormant passion of a reclaimed inebriate , or to kindle the fuel prepared ...
... cent of all confirmed topers owe their ruin to the after - effects of a medical prescrip- tion . 2. A single dose of alcoholic drugs is sufficient to reawaken the dormant passion of a reclaimed inebriate , or to kindle the fuel prepared ...
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The Poison Problem: Or the Cause and Cure of Intemperance (Classic Reprint) Felix L. Oswald No preview available - 2018 |
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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.