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... become reduced to their original size , and a few weeks , or months , will accom- plish this renovation , after which the individual has no longer any suffering or desire for alcohol . It is nevertheless true , and should ever be borne ...
... become reduced to their original size , and a few weeks , or months , will accom- plish this renovation , after which the individual has no longer any suffering or desire for alcohol . It is nevertheless true , and should ever be borne ...
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... become a many - headed hydra , defying one - sided attacks , and it is no paradox to say that we could simplify our work of expurgation by making it more thorough . Polydipsia is a derangement of the digestive or- gans characterized by ...
... become a many - headed hydra , defying one - sided attacks , and it is no paradox to say that we could simplify our work of expurgation by making it more thorough . Polydipsia is a derangement of the digestive or- gans characterized by ...
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... become the pastimes of later ages . For the abnormal condi- tions of civilized life imply the necessity of providing special means of recreation , out - door sports , competi- tive gymnastics , etc. , in order to satisfy the craving of ...
... become the pastimes of later ages . For the abnormal condi- tions of civilized life imply the necessity of providing special means of recreation , out - door sports , competi- tive gymnastics , etc. , in order to satisfy the craving of ...
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... becomes suicidal in its action ; such a view presents an anomaly in the universe of God's physical government . It is not ... become the most eminent who have the soonest emancipated themselves from the tyranny of the schools of physic ...
... becomes suicidal in its action ; such a view presents an anomaly in the universe of God's physical government . It is not ... become the most eminent who have the soonest emancipated themselves from the tyranny of the schools of physic ...
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... become truisms . We should regard the drift of the main current rather than the incidental fluctuations of scientific theories ; and all the ripple of conflicting opinions can not conceal the progress of a strong tendency toward total ...
... become truisms . We should regard the drift of the main current rather than the incidental fluctuations of scientific theories ; and all the ripple of conflicting opinions can not conceal the progress of a strong tendency toward total ...
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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.