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... stimulant - thirst of the confirmed drunkard far exceeds the urgency of the most impetuous instincts ; but by that very excessiveness and persistence the far- gone development of the alcohol habit proves what the mode of its incipience ...
... stimulant - thirst of the confirmed drunkard far exceeds the urgency of the most impetuous instincts ; but by that very excessiveness and persistence the far- gone development of the alcohol habit proves what the mode of its incipience ...
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... stimulants , has already begun to be rec- ognized as a suggestive illustration of that rule . A child's hankering after sweetmeats is only an appar- ent exception , for , as Dr. Schrodt observes , the con- ventional diet of our children ...
... stimulants , has already begun to be rec- ognized as a suggestive illustration of that rule . A child's hankering after sweetmeats is only an appar- ent exception , for , as Dr. Schrodt observes , the con- ventional diet of our children ...
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Felix Leopold Oswald. stimulant habit , temperance people are , indeed , rather inclined to underrate the difficulties of a total cure of a confirmed poison - vice , but equally apt to overrate the difficulty of total prevention . The ...
Felix Leopold Oswald. stimulant habit , temperance people are , indeed , rather inclined to underrate the difficulties of a total cure of a confirmed poison - vice , but equally apt to overrate the difficulty of total prevention . The ...
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... stimulant . And every poison known to modern chemistry can beget that specific craving . " Entirely accidental cir- cumstances , the accessibility of special drugs , imita- tiveness and the intercourse of commercial nations , the mere ...
... stimulant . And every poison known to modern chemistry can beget that specific craving . " Entirely accidental cir- cumstances , the accessibility of special drugs , imita- tiveness and the intercourse of commercial nations , the mere ...
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... stimulant habit and that of a parasitical plant , which , sprouting from tiny seeds , fastens upon , preys upon , and at last strangles its vic- tims . The seductiveness of every stimulant habit gains strength with each new indulgence ...
... stimulant habit and that of a parasitical plant , which , sprouting from tiny seeds , fastens upon , preys upon , and at last strangles its vic- tims . The seductiveness of every stimulant habit gains strength with each new indulgence ...
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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.