Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-26

of these cells. Now, if drink
milk" continued the Doctor, COX
eat food, it will take it four hours
to pass through the digestive or
gans, to be taken up in the blood,
and be passed to the nerve cells,
from which the brain is fed; while
if / drink alcohol it will 60 straight
to the nerve-cells in three minutes.
This shows that alcohol is not di-
gested. 1t is not food. 1t is a
poisonous fluid electricity, which
goes over the sensitive nerves as
electricity gees over a wire, straight
to the outside Of the cells,
which it stimulates artifcially, when
they should be stimulated naturally
through the blood.
eff the spirit of alcohol" con-
tinued the Doctor, "was digested
like soup, the kidneys and liver
would extract from it its poisonous
properties as they extract the inju-
rious salts from our food, and this
poison would never reach the brain.
Once stimulated unnaturally by a
poisonous substance like whisky, the
nerve-cells call for larger and larger
doses, till by and by a man can
drink two quarts of whisky or cat
seventy grains of morphine a day.
Cinchona rubra stops the call for
alcohol"
'Does not red Peruvian bark and
alcohol both stimulate the nerve
cells? Then why can one cure the
other ?" [ asked.
"Well, alcohol is a fermented,
distilled stimulant, with poison in it,
while my medicine is a natural slim
ulant, containing no poison so NY !
medicine stimulates the nerves, and,
not being poisonous, allay8 infam-
is, 1t holds the cells
open until the morbid deposit is
forced out, and the cells accustom
themselves to receive their stiumu-
lus naturally through the arteries.
1t stops all craving for alcohol"
"Please explain the passage Of
food and poisoned alcohol to the
brain again. l said.
" Well, when a man drinks alec
hol it goes, like electricity, straight
to the nerve cells thence to the eye
through the optic nerve; then to the
brain, making a man talk lively;
then to the spinal centre, imbering
the back then to the muscular sys-
tenn and, when it finally gets 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 stimu-
lates and builds up the nerve cells
until they begin to receive nutrition
from the blood 2
Yes, that's it. The only credit
[ claim, is making this discovery
and discovering the location of the
disease known as dipsomania."
GLOW did you discover that red
,inchona bark would cure drunken
ness p
Well, / first discovered it down
n Mary land, twelve years ago. An
account was published in the Sue at
hat time. l had a case of a drunk
lrd, Bill Stevers, who also had in
ermittent fever. 1t was a hard case
# fever, and so l tried red Peru
ian bark instead Of quinine. To
ny surprise, it not only cured his
ever, but he never wanted to drink
Thisky afterward. When he went
nto a saloon and the boys asked 3
i'm to drink, Bill said:
81 can't, boys. That dogon red !
ark the Doctor gave me not only
Tiled my fever, but it spoiled all :
he whisky in Maryland for me.
What conspicuous cures in Chi
ago can you refer to, Doctor :" {
" Well, DR.. s. 3. Noble. He had
he alcoholic disease. His nerve
ellis were poisoned. He was once
President of the Illinois Dental AS
ociation. lie got to be a hard 9
tinker. His mind began to be o
fec.ed, though scholar and
Gentleman, beloved by everybody.
lie tried red Peruvian bark three c
7eeks age. He's a well man now,
nd everybody in Chicago looks at
is cure as a miracle. DR.. Noble
.nows it was a disease, and don't
biect to be referred to-