Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-15
Drunkenness Cured.

| OF Chicago are excited over q new rem
edy discovered By Or. Robert D'Unger
which not only cures intemperance blu,
leaves the drunkard with an absolute
aversion indifference to spirituous
liquors.
Yesterday had long talk with Mr..
Medill about this wonderful discovery
during which I asked him:
" Is this medicine secret?"
"No, not at all. DR.. D'Unger is O
regular practitioner. He tells the Sc.
cret to every one, and many of our
physicians are using his discovery. !
will give you note to him, and he will
tell you about it,"
Armed with Mr.. Medills note, I
called on DR.. D'Unger at the Palmer
House.
"You are just in time" said the
Doctor, I'm just going to call on a
patient now who, though q rich man,
has been q debauched drunkard for
three years, and steady drinker for
fifteen years. For six weeks be has
been in bed as helpless az II child. His
NJ emory was even gone. He has been
taking my medicine for four days"
"Is Mr. in bed? p asked the
Doctor, as we gave our hats to the SER
| wants.
"Oh, no !! he's in the parlor reading
walk in T.
And there was this drunkard, still
weak, but mentally cured. When the
Doctor asked him if he had any longing
for liquor, he said:
No, none whatever. l have eaten
the best meal this morning that have
in fifteen years. 1 am not mentally
depressed. / am strong, and wouldn't
take drink of liquor for the world,
and"
"Oh, Doctor !" interrupted his wife,
as she took both his hands, you have
saved George, and we are 80 happy r.
and then her eyes filed with tears of
Joy: r,.,,. -,
I asked the Doctor.
"No. I've never had patient cured
by cinchona rubra return to drink
again. They hate the sight of liquor. "
"Now, Doctor" said I, "what did
you give this patient? or, in other
words, tell me in plain English what
your medicine is, how you prepare it.
and how any one may give it SO as to
cure an habitual drunkard--I mean q
drunkard with infamed eyes, tremb-
ling hands, bloated body, and intellect
shattered by habitual drink"
"My medicine" said the Doctor,
"can be bought at any [some] first.
class drug store. It is red Peruvian
bark (cinchona rubra). Quinine is
from the yellow bark (calisaya). Now,
I use the bark from the small limbs of
the red variety. Druggists call it the
quill bark because it comes from twigs
about the size of quill"
How do you mix it?"
take q pound of the best fresh
quill red Peruvian bark (chinchona
rnbra), powder it and soak it in q pint
of diluted alcohol. Then I strain it
and evaporate it down to half pint
so it is u pound to q half pint. Any
one can prepare it.
"How do you give this medicine p"
give the drunken man q tea
spoonful every three hours, and occa.
sionally moisten his tongue between
blC uOSCc tuO llLob uuU 5cCOuu udHS.
ACTS like quinine. The patient can tell
by headache if he is getting too
much. The third day I generally re-
duce the dose to half spoonful, then
to quarter spoonful, then down to
fifteen, ten, and five drops"
How long do you continue the
medicine ~
From five to fifteen days, and in
extreme cases tc thirty days. Seven is
about the average"
Now, please tell me the philosophy
of this medicine why it cures drunk
enness, and how you happened to make
the discovery"
"Well, first you must understand
that intemperance, first habit, finally
becomes disease. 1t becomes dis
ease of the nerve cells, or, if talking to
physician, should say it becomes q
disease of the sensorial ganglia. 1
found by dissecting the brain of q man
who had died of dilirium tremens that
the cells of the quadri-geminal body,
or the cells that send the nerves to the
eye, were in an unnatural state on the
outside, while within the nerve cells
themselves I discovered yellow,
yeasty.looking deposit.
Now, I asked myself what is this
yellow deposit and what causes this alb
normal look of the cells 1t is caused,
learned after much research, by the
ethereal part of the alcohol going
straight to the outside of these cells.
Now, if drink milk. continued the
Doctor, "or eat food, it will take it
four hours to pass through the diges-
tive organs, to be taken up in the blood,
and be passed to the nerve cells from
which the brain is fed; while il I drink
alcohol it will go straight to the nerve
cells in three minutes. This shows that
alcohol is not digested. It is not food.
1t is q poisonous intellectually, which
goes over the sensitive nerves as cleo
tricity goes over o wire, straight to the
outside of the nerve-cells, which it
stimulates artifcislly. when they should
be stimulated naturally through the
blood.
"If the spirit of alcohol" continued
the Doctor, were digested like soup,
the kidneys and liver would extract
from it its poisonous properties as they
extract the injurious salts from our food
and this poison would never reach the