The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-31

three minutes. This shows that alcohol Ii
not digested. II Is not food. Its pols'
onous fluid electricity, which goes over
the sensitive nerves as electricity goes over
O wire, straight 10 the outside Of the
nerve cells, which It stimulates artiacially,
when they should be stimulated artitlcialy
through the blood.'
"Ii The spirit part Of the ALCOHOL, con-
tinued the Doctor, "were digested like
soup, the kidneys and liver would extrac!
from It It's poisonous properties as they
extract the injurious salts from our food,
and this poison would never reach the
brain. Once stimulated unnaturally BY. q
poisonous substance like whisky, the
nerve cells call for larger and larger doses,
till by and by q man can drink two quarts
OF whisky or eat seventy grains Of NOR.
phine day. CnehOnG rubro stops the call
for alcohol"
"Does not red Peruvian bark and alco.
hol both stimulate the nerve cells' Then
why can one cure the otherH' | asked.
"Well, alcohol is iermented, distilled
stimulant, with poison in It, while my
medicine is q natural stimulant, contain
ing no poison; so my medicine stimulates
the nerves, and, not being poisonous,
allays nfammation-that Is, 1t holds the
cells open until the morbid deposit Is
forced out, and the cells accustom them
selves to receive their stimulants ratu-
rally through the arteries. II stops all
craving for alcohol" ~
please explain the passage OF food and
poisoned alcohol to the brain again." |
said. ... %
swell, when a man drinks alcohol 1t
goes, like electricity, straight to the nerve
cells; thence to the eye through the optic
nerve; then the brain, making man talk
lively; then to the spinal center, limbering
the back; then TO the muscular system;
and, when Il finally goes to the stomach,
he vomits. Food goes just the opposite
way. Food goes to the stomach first, then
into the blood, then TO the heart and
finally through the arteries to the brain"
"Then red Peruvian bark stimulatesand
builds up the nerve cells until they begin
TO receive nutrition from the bloodW
eyes, that's it. The only credit l claim
is making this discovery and discovering
the location OF the disease known as dipso-
mania"
"How did you discover that red cincho-
ma bark would cure drunkenness.
"Well, first discovered Il down in
Maryland, twelve years ago. An account
was published in the Sun at that time. ]
had case Of a drunkard, Bill Stevens, who
also had Intermittent fever. II wasa hard
case OF fever, and so tried red Peruvian
bark instead OF quinine. To my surprise
II not only cured his fever, but he never
wanted to drink whisky atterward. When
he went into saloon and the boys asked
him to drink, Bill said:
~ can't boys. That dog on red bark the
Doctor gave me not only killed my fever,
but 1t spoiled all the whisky in Maryland
for me-.
"What conspicuous cures in Chicago
can you refer 10, Doctor?"
swell, DR.. s. b. Noble. He had the alco-
holic disease. His nerve cells were poison
cd. He was once President OF the Illinois
Dental Association. He got to be hard
drinker. His mind began TO be affected,
though scholar and gentleman, be-
loved by everybody. He tried red Peru
vian bark three weeks ago. He's a well
man now, and everybody In Chicago looks
at his case as q miracle. DR.. Noble knows
1t was disease, and doesn't obiectto be
referred to-" .....
am satisfied that Il the physicians in
New York will give DR.. UUnger's discov-
cry trial they will do more for temper.
ance in year than Cough and Murphy
have done in NIL their lives. It Is the first
remedy ever discovered that kills tho dis
ease and the inclination to drink at one
and the same time. ELI PERKINS.