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Seite 28 - They believe that alcohol, in whatever form, should be prescribed with as much care as any powerful drug, and that the directions for its use should be so framed as not to be interpreted as a sanction for excess, or necessarily for the continuance of its use when the occasion is past.
Seite 28 - ... and possess such power to restrain its abuse, as members of their own profession, they hold that every medical practitioner is bound to exert his utmost influence to inculcate habits of great moderation in the use of alcoholic liquids.
Seite 240 - It is in vain that every engine is set to work that philanthropy can devise, when those whom we seek to benefit are habitually tampering with their faculties of reason and will — soaking their brains with beer, or inflaming them with ardent spirits. The struggle of the school, the library, and the Church, all united against the beer-house and the gin-palace, is but one development of the war between heaven and hell.
Seite 154 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Seite 28 - As it is believed that the inconsiderate prescription of large quantities of alcoholic liquids by medical men for their patients has given rise, in many instances, to the formation of intemperate habits...
Seite 156 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth its colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright : At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Seite 212 - You are going to lay a tax, and consequently to indulge a sort of drunkenness, which almost necessarily produces a breach of every one of the ten commandments? Can you expect the reverend bench will approve of this?
Seite 194 - The Hudson's Bay Company have for many years entirely excluded spirits from the fur .countries to the north, over which they have exclusive -control; ' to the great improvement,' as Sir John Richardson states, ' of the health and morals of their Canadian servants and of the Indian tribes.
Seite 28 - ... powerful drug, and that the directions for its use should be so framed as not to be interpreted as a sanction for excess, or necessarily for the continuance of its use when the occasion is past. They are also of opinion that many people immensely exaggerate the value of alcohol as an article of diet ; and since no class of men see so much of its...
Seite 10 - Speaking honestly (says Dr. Richardson), I cannot, by any argument yet presented to me, admit the alcohols through any gate that might distinguish them as separate from other chemical bodies. I can no more accept them as foods than I can chloroform, or ether, or methylal. That they produce a temporary excitement is true, but as their general action is quickly to reduce animal heat, I cannot see how they can supply animal force.