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Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
the fruit used, and the juice of wormy and decayed apples is expressed.
Those who would not think of using the poisonous, rotten apples in any
other way, will drink the cider made from them, and call it a luxury;
but the microscope shows that even when fresh from the press, this
pleasant beverage is wholly unfit for use.
Intoxication is just as really produced by wine, beer, and cider, as
by stronger drinks. The use of these drinks awakens the taste for those
that are stronger, and thus the liquor habit is established. Moderate
drinking is the school in which men are educated for the drunkard’s
career. Yet so insidious is the work of these milder stimulants that
the highway to drunkenness is entered before the victim suspects his
danger.