The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-24
A NEW CURE.
Success Of the Remedy in Aberdeen
for 1ntemperance.
Aberdeen Evening Express. |

During the last few months a
course of treatment, having for its
object the cure of intemperance,
has been carried on in Aberdeen
with apparently most successful re
suits. Some of our readers may
remember that about the beginning
) OF the present year paragraph APP
peared in our columns narrating
the extraordinary success which at
tended the efforts of a Chicago ply
sician to cure drunkards of their
craving for spirituous liquors by
use of medicine prepared from the
red Peruvian bark. Among the
persons whose attention was at
tracted by the story were several
gentlemen of influence in Aber
deem, TO whom it occurred to give
the supposed remedy trial. These
gentlemen brought the matter un-
der the notice of DR.. Stewart of
the Heathcot Hydropathic Estab
lishment, at the same time making
the proposal which had suggested
itself to their minds, namely, that a
patient such as would make the
case, SO to speak, test one, should
be put through course of treat
ment at Heathcot.
They were gratified to find DR..
Stewart quite as much interested in
the matter as they themselves were,
and ready to bear a share in the
expense of the experiment, fer such
it was. Without loss of time the
work was commenced, and little
difficulty was experienced in finding
a suitable patient to operate upon.
A man possessed of no mean share
of accomplishments, and in The
prime of life, who for years had
| been the slave of habits that were
surely dragging him to ruin, who,
indeed, four months ago presented
the appearance of a physical and
mental wreck, was, if any one could
be, fitting subject; in point of
fact it was specially with a view to
the reformation of one whose de-
plorable con0Ition made him sub
ject of pity to all that saw him wan
| dering about our streets, that the
proposal first took form. The inc
briate was conveyed to Heathcot
about four months ago, and at
once put under the treatment which
may be here described. The reme-
dy is said to have been discovered
by DR.. D'Unger of Chicago, and
the sole ingredient used in its plep.
aration is the red Peruvian bark
| { Cinchona ru5ra), known among
druggists as ''quill bark, from the
fact that it Is obtained from twigs
about the size of a quill. The bark
is reduced to powder and soaked in
diluted alchohol, after which its
bulk is lessened by one half being
trained or evaporated of. On the
first and second days the medicine
which. in its prepared state, bears
the technical name of Extrdctuns GIN
ch@ RubrB Liquidum, is admlnis-
tered to the patient in the proper
ton of teaspoonful every three
hours, the tongue being occasionally
moistened in the intervals between
the doses.
On the third day the dose is re-
duced to Tablespoonful, a quar-
ter-spoOnful, and subsequently to
fifteen, ten and five drops. The
treatment is continued on an aver
age, for eight days-in extreme ca
ses, for thirty days. Like the well
known preparation derived from
the same source-quinlne-the Er-
tractune CsnchOnae is powerful tonic,
but it possesses the quality which
quinine lacks of inspiring those
that partake of it with a thorough,
and for the time, uncOnqUerable
aversion to spirituous liquors. At
Heathcoat, The treatment was, in
effect, as we have indicated, and al
most from its commencement it de
veloped the most extraordinary re-
suits. After the first few doses the
intense craving for drink became
less, and gradually disappeared;
while in place of it there was mani
tested a no less aversion to the al
chohol which shortly grew into
positive disgust. The treatment
was continued for three months,
after the lapse of which period the
patient returned to Aberdeen, with a
color in his cheeks that for years
had been absent, and such health
and vigor in his movements as
could not fail to carry conviction re-
garding the result of the work.
The once decrepid and manned
drunkard has been furnished with
employment; physically the man
has been retrieved from utter ruin.
Emboldened by the success which
attended the efforts in this instance,
DIR. Stewart and his friends had an
other patient subjected to the effects
of the medicine at Heathcot. In
this case it was a commercial man,
whose depIorable desire for spiritu-
Gus liquors was fast running him
and destroying the happiness of his
family. The case was not so hope
lessly bad as the previous one, yet
it called for remedy if ever one did.
The man was brought to Heathcot
one day, dead drunk, and when the
first fierce craving had passed, the
same aversion to spirits as was dis
played in the other case resulted.
His wife, in letter, while express
ing in the most earnest manner the
hope that the efforts for her hus-
bands reformation would be award
ed with success, despaired of the
result, knowing from experience, as
she said, that the unhappy man
would find some means of providing
himself with stimulants of some
shape, whether whisky, chloraf,
opium or chloroform. In a month,
however, the patient was allowed TO
visit the city daily for the purpose
of attending to his duties, returning
to Heathcot at night. He is now
an altered man, has no longing for
strong drink, and hates the sight of
it.
Yet another case. A young man
whose habits threatened to involve
him in the moral and physical
destruction which in the preceding
cases was all but reached, was sent
to Deeside, and, after undergoing a
, fortnight's treatment at the hands