FRANCE: Brutish Wormwood

In its early stages absinthe produces an agreeable feeling of intoxication. By its continual employment the character becomes changed. To the brightness and gayety of the first effects succeeds a somber brutishness. What is worse the descendants of absinthe drinkers suffer from the sins of the fathers.

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