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... drink Mexican aloe - sap , or chew the coca - leaves of the South American Indians . Ar- senic has its votaries in the southern Alps . Cinnabar and acetate of copper victimize the miners of the Pe- ruvian sierras . The Ashantees are so ...
... drink Mexican aloe - sap , or chew the coca - leaves of the South American Indians . Ar- senic has its votaries in the southern Alps . Cinnabar and acetate of copper victimize the miners of the Pe- ruvian sierras . The Ashantees are so ...
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... drinking , and then returned , his first cry would be , ' Give me rum ! give me rum ! " " " The infernal powers blindfold the victims of their altars , " says Lessing , and the stimulant vice seems , in fact , to weaken not only the ...
... drinking , and then returned , his first cry would be , ' Give me rum ! give me rum ! " " " The infernal powers blindfold the victims of their altars , " says Lessing , and the stimulant vice seems , in fact , to weaken not only the ...
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... drink moderately and not give themselves up to drunkenness . They become drunkards by law- fixed , immutable law . Let a man with a constitution as perfect as Adam's undertake to drink alcohol , moder- ately and perseveringly , with all ...
... drink moderately and not give themselves up to drunkenness . They become drunkards by law- fixed , immutable law . Let a man with a constitution as perfect as Adam's undertake to drink alcohol , moder- ately and perseveringly , with all ...
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... drinking to excess - as he would go over Niagara Falls when placed in a canoe in the river above the falls and left to the natural oper- ation of the current . And proportionately as he descended the stream would his alcoholic ...
... drinking to excess - as he would go over Niagara Falls when placed in a canoe in the river above the falls and left to the natural oper- ation of the current . And proportionately as he descended the stream would his alcoholic ...
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... drinks ? The stomach , by that extraordinary self - restorative power of Nature , gradually resumes its natural ... drink is a mocker , in disease as well as in health , and the road to the rum - shop leads through the dispensary as ...
... drinks ? The stomach , by that extraordinary self - restorative power of Nature , gradually resumes its natural ... drink is a mocker , in disease as well as in health , and the road to the rum - shop leads through the dispensary as ...
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The Poison Problem: Or the Cause and Cure of Intemperance (Classic Reprint) Felix L. Oswald No preview available - 2018 |
The Poison Problem; Or, the Cause and Cure of Intemperance Felix Leopold Oswald No preview available - 2011 |
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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.