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Page 68
... experienced physiologists admit to be the inevitable consequence of the stimulant - habit . Every known disease of the human system is aggra- vated by intemperance . The morbid diathesis , as physicians call a predisposition to organic ...
... experienced physiologists admit to be the inevitable consequence of the stimulant - habit . Every known disease of the human system is aggra- vated by intemperance . The morbid diathesis , as physicians call a predisposition to organic ...
Page 83
... experience , and know that their grati- fications are often followed by a bitter pang , and that mine are not . Indeed , so far am I from suffering from my mode of living that it has relieved me en- tirely from the common sufferings of ...
... experience , and know that their grati- fications are often followed by a bitter pang , and that mine are not . Indeed , so far am I from suffering from my mode of living that it has relieved me en- tirely from the common sufferings of ...
Page 89
... It requires only your own experience and observation to convince you that it is upon the medi- cal profession , upon their prescriptions and recom- mendations for its use upon so many occasions , that ALCOHOLIC DRUGS . 89.
... It requires only your own experience and observation to convince you that it is upon the medi- cal profession , upon their prescriptions and recom- mendations for its use upon so many occasions , that ALCOHOLIC DRUGS . 89.
Page 90
... experience and practical observation , I feel assured that alcoholic stimulants are not required as medicines , and believe that many , if not a majority of physicians to - day , of education and experience , are sat- isfied that ...
... experience and practical observation , I feel assured that alcoholic stimulants are not required as medicines , and believe that many , if not a majority of physicians to - day , of education and experience , are sat- isfied that ...
Page 107
... experience , and can not deny that their poison has proved the curse of their lives , only a small portion is at all able to comprehend the necessary connection of cause and result . They ascribe their ruin to the spite of fortune , to ...
... experience , and can not deny that their poison has proved the curse of their lives , only a small portion is at all able to comprehend the necessary connection of cause and result . They ascribe their ruin to the spite of fortune , to ...
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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.