The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge.

  • Ridge, J. J. (John James), 1847-1908
Date:
1879
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Credit: The temperance primer : an elementary lesson book designed to teach the nature and properties of alcoholic liquors, and the action of alcohol on the body / by J. James Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We must also notice the fact that Alcohol is in the same way able to deaden the feeling”of some nerves that are over-excited. It is for this reason that so many people take it to get rid of uneasy feelings or slight pains. A better plan is to get rid of the cause of these pains, which are often the result of eating or drinking what is not good, or too much of that which is good. There is also another point to be observed. If a person takes a very little Alcohol, the first time he does so it will have a great effect on him ; but if he takes it every day, at last it will not act in the same way, and he must take more to produce the same result: soon this, too, will cease to act. The nerves get iiscd to the Alcohol, that is, they are gradually altered so that the spirit shall not be able to do so much harm. [Tolerance of the spirit is said to have been produced.] People who do not feel any effect from a glass of wine are not in a strictly natural state. But if they leave off their daily I