The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-11-18
DRUNkEkkhsS CURABLE.
Food for the Nervous Tissue all that is Needed
suggestions worth Thinking About.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir:
"Layman" asks, In substance. IL drunkenness IL
a ouraoie DISEASE, why is It not cureif Thou
sands OF Others are vainly asking the same
question. The real cause and nature of Intern
poranoe aud its remedy are the most important
problems OF ths present century.
Everything that has been tried thus far has
failed, utterly failed, to check the evil. Yet the
cause Contemporaries. l am confident, can be
made clear to every rejecting mind. Aud the
cause, once reached. will suggest the remedy.
1t Ia no empty theoretical abstraction that Of
fer. but the fruit of experience based upon four
teen years Of scientific research and professional
| opium haptts have Oeen saved bY the means |
| suggest, even IN cases wnore the will seemed
hOpelessy broken down.
| In ms iewest words possible | will sketch the
| outline of my views aud syst IN. The human
| body Is asseniOl.ge OF ursans; each one
being machine By Itself, navins a definite
| function to perform. Function Is synonyme Of
| LABOR, and labor results III waste. In other
| words, waste results from tue function OF
edcn organ IN proportion u its degree Of effort.
| lh.s wasse must be supplied by food, httea for
| that purpose Dy tue digestive Orsdns.
| Now the LABOR OF the nervous tissue, as an
| ORGAN Of tue human body Is incOmparaoly
| greater than that VI any other organ. IL is the
| Lille engine. the motive power that awakens into
| activity all OF tue other tissues ana organs OF
the human body. IL ~ this tissue that causes
| the noart to beat, ,hs lungs to breathe, ana the
| stomach to digest. Ii IA from tins tissue that
| Consciousness, intellectlOn, SENSATION. aud mo
| rep trative, secretOry nd excrrtOry functions
oil tue BODY axe carried on. Ia its gray cells the
| life iorc1 or vital energy OF tue sSstem Is tldO-
| Grated aud stored, anu through It's wnlte plr-
ti"n distributed TO the various tissues and
organs.
As H. has been explained, waste is always in
| proportion to Labor, aad tue waste OF an organ
| must he met by an ade luate supply Of proper
| food, or its function VIII become impaired
| Now, what Is food to tue nervous tissue Is nOt
| food 10 the muscular, the adipOse, and the us-
| scUus. Each tissue must have TODD adapted To
satlsf tue chemical elements that enter into ia
constitution.
Now, - tue supply OF nerve food equal to the
dimdhdl Ara We getting proper supply OF
nerNe-ouilding III .teti.l 10 supply the resent
enormous waste In the nervous tissue Of the
massest In whit does nerve food consist
MAJ Is itt Is g M tg No. White Ursadi
No. Potatoest No. IL IL is not found IN tncst
staples, IN whlt Il IL to DO ioundY answer. III
the exterior of the wheat kernel in tue sam ul
me pot to- and IN milh pastdlly, also, IN ogg-
ana hsu.
J. INTO be wondered at that the starving ner.
Nous tissue ia the OycrwOrked muses. attcmpt
| T. tl-fN al iutolrrdble sense OF craving, 81
phN scdi huug,I, bN tue Use Of stimuli iting pot
SONS tnat Temporarily supply The place OF TODD
Let II he O"rhe IA MAD tuat stimulating Drain
pols rs tohdcco, alcohol, ana optum tempo
lArly supply IN place Of BRAN or nerve rood.
Wnat Il tue Cause of intcmprIauVrf | al.
sNer, tue want ol proper sapIS OF u"rSe food
to meet tue Waste VI tue nervous tissue Ia tue
nASres.
WHAT is the cure for lntemperancef answer
nerve iIoi -builalus material to supply the
waste. answer iurtAer, reform III the pres
cnt popular system OF dletettCs. nN reducing the
piopuIHon OF 4 a anu Understanding clemens
ana increasing lhe nerve huiiuin- material IA
proper ratlu. LIT tie supply Ia each case meet
the dem ud. aud 10 more.
| or CouIsu, ia thla har article only "a hrie
Outline OF the new sGs,en of Tue prevention an1
euro " lnteinperince Z II Ue drawn.
NlkGIL W, III ANCHAHD.