Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-01-20
rzow Id CURE pRUNKENAEss.

lis generally understood that young
persons. when first employed as pastry
cooks. are permitted to surfeit them
selves to their hearts content on pies
and sweetmeats the result being that
in a very short time they become per
fectlv cailous to the charms Of the coun-
ter. We learn from a valuable little
book, recently published in London,
called srThe Home Nurse" that IN the
Austrian army a method on similar
principle is adopted as remedy for
drunkenness and medical reports state
that out of 1 90 cases, Iz8 cures of con-
frmed cirunkards have been effected.
The plan is as follows:
The soldier taken in a state of intoxi-
cation, OF purPosely inebriated. is con-
fined to his room, where his diet is care
fully and amply supplied to him. accord
ing to his choice. For drink, he IS al
lowed brandy and water, IN the proper
ton of one-third brandy to two-thirds
water. All his food is prepared in
weak solution of brandy and water.
Coffee, with a small quantity of brandy,
is also allowed him. At first, the treat
ment throws the patient into a constant
state of intoxication, and he sleeps much.
At the end of three or four days he takes
a dislike to his food and drink, and
asks for a change, which request, were
it acceded to, would entirely prevent the
completion of the cure. On the con-
trary. it must now be persevered in, un-
til the patient can no longer swallow
food or drink, and even the smell re-
volts and nauseates the stomach, when
the cure may be considered as effected.
Tbs shortest time for the continuance of
f4ea4 Il A.
gests nine. In order to prevent the con-
gesion which might ensue, the patient
must now be given gentle emetics-that
is, one grain of emetic in a bottle of
water a wineglassful to be taken every
quarter of an hour in the morning fast
ing. This is followed by forty-grains Of
magnesia, daily, given in broth or Cruel,
placing the patient at first on a low, light
diet, and then gradually increasing to
to his original rations. If during the
first part Of the treatment, splitting of
blood or convulsions should result, it
must not be perseyered in therefore this
mode OF remedy cannot, on any pre-
tence whatever, be adopted but by
medical man. In Russia, drunkenness
is also treated as disease, and certain
strong aromatic preparations are used
as curative means. As a temporary
remedy, to restore the unfortunate vic
tim to state Of sobfiety, give him from
ten to twelve drops Of spirits Of ammonia
in wine glass of water. This win be
sufficient in common case but if the
person IS positively drunk, it may be
necessary to give the dose a second
time, IN which case it viii generally act
as an emetic ian advantage), when
short sleep will ensue, and the patient
will wake restored. None but medical
man may venture to apply the ammonia
to the nostrils, as not only injurious, but
fatal effects might ensue.
Men who are too penuriously mean to
advertise in proper and legitimate ways
because it costs something, proclaim
their own meanness BY daubinq the face
of nature with paint, and plastering
barns, fences and trees with lying puffs
about their worthless wares and vile
compounds. Of this business and pro-
fessional quackery, the New York Tri- |
bune speaks when it says:
Was there not a law passed by the |
State Legislature, a year or two ago, to /
prevent the DETACHMENT of natural seen
cry IA law especially designed to pre-
vent the painting Of advertisements of |
quack medicines on the rocks along the |
lines Of railroads 7 Yet within the last
few weeks the scenery on the line of
the Hudson River Railroad, as well as |
other roads, has been defaced, to an ex-
tent never before paralleIed, by the most |
obnoxious advertisements of this sort.
They not only destroy whatever pleas |
ure the traveller might derive from OBJ |
serving the natural features of the re-
gion through which the road passes, but
they compel people to turn their heads |
away from the rail-car windows with |
disgust. The law ought to be enforced |
in such a way as viii make the horrors |
of railroad travelling less, by at least one, /
than they are at present.