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... suppression of the symptoms re- tards the accomplishment of that reconstruction . And ever since that truth dawned upon the human mind the use of poison drugs has steadily decreased . A larger and larger number of intelligent physicians ...
... suppression of the symptoms re- tards the accomplishment of that reconstruction . And ever since that truth dawned upon the human mind the use of poison drugs has steadily decreased . A larger and larger number of intelligent physicians ...
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... suppression of that vice would relieve our cities from a burden equivalent to a full half of all their municipal taxes . The moral loss is not confined to the direct influ- ence of the brutalizing poison . The liquor traffic defiles all ...
... suppression of that vice would relieve our cities from a burden equivalent to a full half of all their municipal taxes . The moral loss is not confined to the direct influ- ence of the brutalizing poison . The liquor traffic defiles all ...
Page 88
... suppressed while the system is con- vulsed by the paroxysm of the alcohol fever . But the patient can not be kept under the constant influ- ence of such antidotes , and in the intervals of the stimulant - convulsion the other enemy gets ...
... suppressed while the system is con- vulsed by the paroxysm of the alcohol fever . But the patient can not be kept under the constant influ- ence of such antidotes , and in the intervals of the stimulant - convulsion the other enemy gets ...
Page 92
... suppression , and the , if possible , prevention , of crime , and the enforcement of health laws ; and it can be demonstrated by every rule of logic and equity that the liquor traffic can be held amenable in both respects . The favorite ...
... suppression , and the , if possible , prevention , of crime , and the enforcement of health laws ; and it can be demonstrated by every rule of logic and equity that the liquor traffic can be held amenable in both respects . The favorite ...
Page 100
... suppression of the liquor traffic would be the most effectual means for reform- ing the moral status of civilized ... suppressed , with the happiest social results . The late Lord Palmerston suppressed the beer - shops in Romsey as the ...
... suppression of the liquor traffic would be the most effectual means for reform- ing the moral status of civilized ... suppressed , with the happiest social results . The late Lord Palmerston suppressed the beer - shops in Romsey as the ...
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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.