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... truth dawned upon the human mind the use of poison drugs has steadily decreased . A larger and larger number of intelligent physicians had begun to suspect that the true healing art consists in the removal of the cause , and that where ...
... truth dawned upon the human mind the use of poison drugs has steadily decreased . A larger and larger number of intelligent physicians had begun to suspect that the true healing art consists in the removal of the cause , and that where ...
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... truth is a half - untruth , and I will name that other reason : Ignorant patients demand an im- mediate effect . They send for a doctor , and are to pay his bill ; they expect to get their money's worth in the form of a prompt and ...
... truth is a half - untruth , and I will name that other reason : Ignorant patients demand an im- mediate effect . They send for a doctor , and are to pay his bill ; they expect to get their money's worth in the form of a prompt and ...
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... more , we have increased their mor- tality . I will not pause to beg pardon of the faculty for acknowledging , in this public manner , the weak- ness of our profession . I am pursuing Truth , THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . 41.
... more , we have increased their mor- tality . I will not pause to beg pardon of the faculty for acknowledging , in this public manner , the weak- ness of our profession . I am pursuing Truth , THE CAUSES OF INTEMPERANCE . 41.
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Felix Leopold Oswald. ness of our profession . I am pursuing Truth , and am indifferent whither I am led , if she only is my leader . " " Our system of therapeutics , " says Jules Virey , " is so shaky ( vacillant ) that the soundness of ...
Felix Leopold Oswald. ness of our profession . I am pursuing Truth , and am indifferent whither I am led , if she only is my leader . " " Our system of therapeutics , " says Jules Virey , " is so shaky ( vacillant ) that the soundness of ...
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... truth their means of inquiry had enabled them to recognize . Our so- called tolerance springs often from indifference . Our easy - going , crime - condoning philanthropy is too often something worse than indifference ; our aversion to ...
... truth their means of inquiry had enabled them to recognize . Our so- called tolerance springs often from indifference . Our easy - going , crime - condoning philanthropy is too often something worse than indifference ; our aversion 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.