Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-13
DIR. D'UNGER CALLED FOR.
Physician Who Says HIS Temperate
Remedy Is a Fraud.

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LCor. Chicago Times.
In the New York Sun there recently ap-
peared an article purporting to be from the
pen of Minneapolis physician. This gen.
tleman stated that he could both DESTROY the
appetite for liquor and cure drunkenness by
administering teaspoonful doses of the tinct-
ure of cinchona. The public expression of
an unqualified opinion is bad enough, but it
is UNANIMOUSLY wrong when uttered
with intent to personally profit
thereby. The gentleman is to me
stranger, and what his intentions and pur-
poses may be I know not; but believe that
the hearts to whom he would "bring sun
shine'' will ever remain s'shadowed'' if these
"drunkards of the land'' are to be given
teaspoonful doses of 81 per cent alcohol,
although it does contain in solution the ac-
tive principles of bark that is known to be
tonic, stimulant, aud anti-periodlc. With
the same propriety,
WHY NOT PRESCRIBE BEER?
It contains tonic, stimulant and anti
periodic in the form of lupuline, the active
bitter principle of the hop. ] imagine that
it would not make much difference whether
a man was physician or a stevedore, the
public would pronounce him insane if he
was to advocate the drinking of eight per
cent. alcohol as cure for drunkenness
The doctors discovery is remarkable
one, and the experience of the
gentleman who used the doctors
preparation, and was thereby rendered hope
lessly incapable of drinking alchoholic slim
ulants, is truly miraculous when compared
with that of gentleman who lately came in
to my Office living witness of the fact that
tincture of cinchora will make man drink.
The man had taken it in teaspoonful doses
during six or eight hours time: the
entire quantity taken being less than
two and one-half ounces. As the doctor
has 80 emphatically stated that it is impossi-
BILE to obtain the proper kind of bark. or its
tincture, without sending. to him, and that
strangely enough four-fffths of them (who
do send) do not inclose even the stamp, to
say nothing of a fee,'' I will add that the
mans intoxication may be due TO his negli-
gence, rather. than to the fact of his having
taken the official hncture of Peruvian bark
Again, would repeat the remarks made
to me by brother physician who was pres
ent when this cinchona victim related to me
his experiences. He said: 81 have been as
DRUNK ON THE T1NCrURE OF c1NcHoNA
40 OVCA 1 Noo upOA tsAty Gul1lS c1Se: D6lleVe
have drank barrel of it. Now, in view ot
the doctors prescription which he saws he
has discovered to be useful for the purposes
named, and which he has given to the world
| ':free gratis for nothing and at the same
time has so pertly observed that the world
does not honor him therefor even BY
sending him postage stamp, woulc
suggest to the doctor to make memo
randum of the worlds ingratitude
and append thereon an appropriate requiem
And to the world would suggest, at least t.
that proportion who are attempting to ssdart
to do right, the necessity for their remem
bering the danger that exists in the teaspoon
full doses of tincture of cinchona. For God'
sake, for your own sake, and for the sake o.
the world in which you live,
DON'T TOUCH TT
4 In conclusion, / have word for those VIII,
have editorialy commented upon the virtue
of this great remedy. The higher medica
authorities say that the effects to be pro
4 duced by Peruvian bark, when given for it
anti-periodic and tonic properties, are aug
mented by giving it in infusion; that becaus
Of its stimulating power it is not to be use
in form of tncture, las the combined stimuIat
ing effect of the bark and alcohol impoye1
ishes its properties as an anti-periodic an
tonic.
= The kinates Of cinchona and quinia are