Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-15
DIR. DUNGER PRESENT.
The Physician Calling His Temperate
Remedy q Fraud, Caustically Dtssected.

To the Editor of the Globe.
M1SNEAPo11s, Mimi, May 13.-DEAn
Sn: Your issue of this date con-
tains an article sent to the Chicago Times
against the cinchona treatment for alcohol
ism, written by ct. D. Villa ms, NJ. d.,
whom have not the honor OF knowing, but
can fully appreciate from the manner in
which he treats so serious matter as dip
somania, known in common parlance as
drunkenness. Whatever may be the motive
of 81. D. Williams, M. d. or however as
tute he may profess to be, it is evident from
his TRADE against cinchona tincture and IN
favor of beer, that he is sadly blinded from
some cause or other. It may be beer, for
aught know, or it may be something
stronger; but, as s'T. D. Williams, M. d.
boldly asserts that none but ignoramuses
believe chronic whisky drinking durable
malady, allow me to say through your col
umns that "T. D. Williams, NJ. D" had bet
ter go farther into the medical text books
that he may find more. AS member OF the
medical fraternity, and one whose field of
experience has most likely been far larger
than that ever pastured in by 'sf. D. Will
liams, M. d. here proclaim that the pub
LEGATION of such an assertion as the one allud
ed to proves 1T. D. Williams M. d. to be
not only one who is not we'll read, but one
anxious to make the public believe he is SO.
Most medical men, after reading his mani
festo, will set him in Latin thus: Asix1us
nirdbilis.
It matters not to me what may be the
views of "T. D. Williams, n. d. upon the
question, els drunkenness curable?" but it is
something to the public that they be ac
quainted with all facts which bear upon the
prosperity of our race. And it is that may
undo, as far as possible, the mischief such
paper as that sent out by IT'D. Williams,
NJ. d. may occasion, that I respond to
your call, "Dr. D. Unger Wanted
My discovery that the disease of dipso,
mania has its seat in the sensorial nerve cen
tres (the ganglia), and not in the ideational
centres (the intellect), is one of very great
importance to the medical world, and to
show you and your readers that it is so,
viii here remark that much higher men than
'T D. Williams, NJ. d. are giving it their
earnest attention. Amongst these is no less
parsonage than DR.. Austin Flint, of the
New York Bellevue Medical college,
who has not only written me a highly
complimentary letter upon the subject, but
! in that letter says he will put my method
in practice, and advise his medical brethren
to do the same. Now, as Professor Flint is
acknowledged by all medical scholars to be
the most profund thinker on diseases and
their cure, on this continent, and as his
works are standard text books in all the col
leges of this country and Europe, what are
we to think of '"r. d. Williams, M. DIP
ct. d. Williams. M. d. whom nobody
from Chicago that have met seem to know,
labors sadly in the dark, in fact seems to be
located in the A B G class of medical science,
and at the head of some lager beer brewery,
because his outburst against cinchona, and
in favor of beer, exhibits an entire lack of
proper knowledge on the subject of materia
medica, as will here prove: He says lupu-
line (the bitter principle in beer) is q good
anti periodic and yet but one man, DR.. God
berry, of Massachusetts, has ever had the
courage to call it such. Physicians, the
world over, set it down as mild narcotic
and SO prescribe it, and, as proof that they
are right in doing SO, ask your regular beer
drinker-even ..T. D. Williams, M. d.
and he will tell you he sleeps WE'LL But
agree with ''T. D. Williams, M. D." in that
lupuline is good tonic, because have OBJ
served that man who drinks eight or
ten glasses Of lager after supper can
we'll relish dozen more before lunch
time the next morning, and that the appe-
tite then is SO refined and sharp that the
onions and salt, the limburger and skinken
cheese, the krout and the red pickles are
taken in with such gusto as to really brighten
all dispensers of free lunches and King
Gambrinus nectar.
The combat against cinchona
has been begun by ''r. D.
Williams, NJ. d. but the battle will not
last long, because men of his calibre are too
weak mentally to grasp the subject Of nerv-
GUS diseases, and he must go to to the wall
for all the authorities are against him.
Dipsomania has been admitted to be an in
termittent disease by every author of stand
ing who has written upon the subject, and
cinchona bark and its salts are the admitted
remedies for intermittent diseases. Besides
/ have dozens of letters from Chicago and
elsewhere to prove that my method and my
medicine cure the affection. ''T. D. Will
liams, M. d. can he. a mediocritical
egotist, whose assertion is that of an igno-
ramus, push aside the truth? I think not
because facts are stubborn things and the
basis of all logic.
Far better would it have been for ''T. D
Williams, M. d. to have made up some
tincture of cinchona rubra from the pre-
scription sent out for the benefit of man
kind. tried it, and then gave his verdict;
but he did not do this On the contrary he
says some one who drank barrel of Gin
chona came into his Office and told him the
stuff wouldn't cure etc. Well, the man who
can report his condition soberly after drink
ing that quantity of cinchona rubra tincture
is the curiosity Barnum wants, and when
the great Snowman gets him ct. D. Will
Hams, M. d. can possibly secure a situa-
ton to stir the animal up.
I should reply to the bombast of ct. D
Williams, M. d. in more smooth style
had he evinced that he was physician; but
his departure from the code of ethics which
govern medical gentlemen puts him in the
light of quack who, seeing a true physician
send broadcast over the land secret out O
which an empyric might have made a for
tune, cries out like the thief, 'sStop, thief =
Enough, cinchona rubra tincture, as I pre-
pare it, cures drunkenness in all stages, de
spite the effort made to deride it by ct. D
Williams, M. d. have an abundance O
proof of this to show to any one interested
Yours. ETC., r.. D'UNGER, M. D.
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