Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11
Hint for the Labor Exchange.
CinchOna vs.. Whiskev.

oOIuC VI Iuc WtSJeTu Journals nave Oo0l be-
guiled into giving many thousands Of dollars
worth OF gratuitOus advertising to an ingen-
,ous, and perhaps ingenious, physician of
Minnesota, who claims to have discovered a
certain cure Tor the disease of drunkenness
AS we are not in the gratuitOus advertising
line ourselves, we need only repeat few OF
The things that this worthy physician says
Of modern times. He is good enough to tell
plainly what the remedy Is, and to give the
formular FORTS preparation but he adds the
diScouraging Information that success will not
follow unless the drug used be perfectly pure,
and that ne does know OF a chemist in the
United States who will supply it in pure
toner. This is what the ingenious physician
whose sands OF life, we trust, are not yet
nearly run outbound himself compelled to
do He has an ample supply of the magical ar
ticle any one else may get it for himseIflfh he
can but the Doctor warns every one that the
druggist will not give the genuine drug unless
1t Is specially imported for the customer.
Eleven years ago he was called in to see "a
fortyyear-old TOPPER" who had been given up
to to die because luinine-the only remedy for
iously." In a fit of desperation, the Doctor,
under the impression that In the red bark of
cinchopa there might be possibly something
e 9ed bark IN hsp og to 9 ntvs
very strong tincture of it, administered it to
his patient, and awaited results. The man
got well, but found that he had acquired an
ali other alcoholic drinks, and from that time
on was total abstainer. Startled by this dis
eoyery' the Doctor tried his experiment. on
others. until he became convinced that the
man who takes few doses of pure cinchons
Will never willingly taste whiskey again. Bat
ne goes on to explain that it is difficult to OBJ
the Kingdom of Heaven. The tncture from
the yellow bark viii not do. This bark costs
only thirty cents d pound: it yields less than
quinine; while the red bark is worth S. a
pound. and yields from two to three per cent.
of circhona and only One-half per cent. of qui-
the Doctor says, can tell the difference be,
tween the true red bark and It's counterfeits.
and there is no article so difficult to procure
as the genuine etnch9na enbra However, il
forever after incapable of enjoying Il Whiskey
punch, here is the Doctors fOrmulI:
The manner in which cOncoct the tincture
make pint out Of one pound t get the b.rR
IN the quill" form mostly, and pulverize
il Just before efos the disPaciag operation is be-
and keep it over night Tor twelve hours) thus
saturated, afterwards using diluted alcohol,
hltering slowly until It a pint is obtained; If
brown, retilter until it does. The dose ad-
minister is usually tablespoonful three or
four times day. or as often as the patient
party is strong and vigorous, and when the
nervous system has not been too mu III shat
tered, l increase the dose to two and some
times three spOOnfuls. Very rarely do use
anything else, except, it may be, where there
Is great restlessneSs and insomnia, when l
administer full doses (ten to twenty grains)
of the bromide of potassa.
Perhaps it would be we'll for the medical
gentlemen attached to our institutions of
charity and correction to put the Western doc
tors discovery to the test. They can procure
pure red cinchona If any one can, and they
would be at no loss for patients on whom its
virtues could be tried.-[N. Y. Graphic.
he ful L n dua of aatl,