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... effect is more infallible than that of other poisons ; empirists prescribe it at the special request of their patients , or as a temporary prophy- lactic ; others because they find it in the ready - made formulas of their dispensatories ...
... effect is more infallible than that of other poisons ; empirists prescribe it at the special request of their patients , or as a temporary prophy- lactic ; others because they find it in the ready - made formulas of their dispensatories ...
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... effect . For that purpose alcohol is , indeed , the most reliable agent . It will spur the jaded system into a desperate effort to expel the intruder , though the strength expended in that effort should be ever so urgently needed for ...
... effect . For that purpose alcohol is , indeed , the most reliable agent . It will spur the jaded system into a desperate effort to expel the intruder , though the strength expended in that effort should be ever so urgently needed for ...
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... effects by mechanical means . But , with these rare exceptions , it is by far the safer as well as shorter way to avoid drugs , reform our habits , and not interrupt the course of Nature , for , properly speaking , " disease itself is a ...
... effects by mechanical means . But , with these rare exceptions , it is by far the safer as well as shorter way to avoid drugs , reform our habits , and not interrupt the course of Nature , for , properly speaking , " disease itself is a ...
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... all the ripple of conflicting opinions can not conceal the progress of a strong tendency toward total abstinence from all viru- lent drugs . CHAPTER III . PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE POISON - HABIT THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . 43.
... all the ripple of conflicting opinions can not conceal the progress of a strong tendency toward total abstinence from all viru- lent drugs . CHAPTER III . PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE POISON - HABIT THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . 43.
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Felix Leopold Oswald. CHAPTER III . PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE POISON - HABIT . " The stimulant - vice is the principal cause of human degeneration . " -Haller . SCIENCE tells us that there is a general progres- sive tendency in Nature ...
Felix Leopold Oswald. CHAPTER III . PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE POISON - HABIT . " The stimulant - vice is the principal cause of human degeneration . " -Haller . SCIENCE tells us that there is a general progres- sive tendency in Nature ...
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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.