The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-05-02
DRUNKENNESS.
AN ALLEGED CURE SAID TO DESTROY
THE APPETITE FOR LIQUOR.

A letter from Chicago to the New
\ Ork San contains an account OF DR..
D'UHger's mode of treatment for the
cure of drunkenness. If the drug or
bark is found to possess the properties
claimed for it our physicians Will, no
doubt, advise its use. We trust this
new discovery will possess the alleged
virtues, for, if SO, viii prove no less val
liable than wonderful
''Now, Doctor" l said 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 il SO as to cure an habitual drunkard-
l mean a dTunkaTd with infamed eyes
trembling hands, bloated body, and intellect
shattered by habitual drink" ="
my medicine" said the Doctor, ''can be
bought at any tirSt-class drug store 1t is
red Peruvian bark (cinchond rubrG.) Quinine
is from the yellow bark Ccah,ayG.) Now,
there are eighty varieties Of this bark.
use the bark from the small red variety
Druggists call it the quill bark because it
comes from twigs about the size Of a quill "
'How do you mix it 90
Il take pound Of the best fresh quill red
Peruvian bark (cinchoHd rlibrd) powder it
and soak it in pint of diluted alcohol
Then ] strain it and evapOrate il down to a
half pint-so it is pound to q hall pint
Any one can prepare il.
''How do you give this medicine ?"
81 give the drunken man = teaspoonful
his tongue between the doses the first and
second days. 1t acts like Quinine. The pa
tient can tell By headache il he is getting
too much. The third day l generally reduce
the dose to a half spoonful, then to a quarter
spoonful, then down 10 fifteen, ten and five
How long do you continue the medicine ?''
From i've 70 fifteen days and in extreme
cases thirty days. Seven Is about the aver
7ssNoyy, please tell me the philosophy Of
this mcdicine-Why i cures drunkenness,
and how you happened to make the discove-
well first you must understand that in
Temperance, first = habit, finally becomes g
disease It becomes disease of the nerve
cells, OF il talking to physician, l should
say il becomes disease Of the SensOri2l gan
gia. / found by diSSecting the brain of
man whe had died Of deiirium tremens that
the cells Of the quadrigeminal body. or the
cells that send the nerves u the eye, were in
al unnatural state the outside, while
within the nerve cells themselves / discover
ed yellow, yeasty-IOOking deposit.
Now, ! asked myself, what il this yellow
deposit and what causes this abnormal look
of the cells? II was caused, l 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, "OT eat food il will take il four hours
to pass through the digestive organs, be Ia
ken up in the blood, and be passed to the
nerve cells in three minutes. This shows
that alcohol is not digeSted. Il is not food.
1t is q poisonous fluid, electricity, goes over
a wire straight to the outside OF the nerve
cells, which it stimulates artifcially, when
they should be stimulated naturally through
the blood.
IF the spirit part Of alcohol, " continued
the Doctor, were diCeSted ike soup. the
kidneys would extract from it it, properties
as they extract the injurious salts from our
food, and this poison would never reach
them. Once stimulated Unn2tuTally BY a
poisonous substance ike whisky the nerve
cells call for larger and larger doses till by
and by a man can drink two quarts of whisky
or eat seventy grains Of morphine day
Ciach0nG rltbrd stops the call for alcohol"
please explain the passage OF food and
poisoned alcohol 70 the brain again" ] said.
''Well. when man drinks alcohol it goes,
like electricity, straight to the nerve cells ;
! thence to the eye through the optic nerve
then to the brain, making man talk lively /;
then to the spinal centre limbeTing the
F when il finally gets to the stomach, he v0m-
/ its. Food goes 10 the stomach first, then
! into the blood, then to the heart, and finally
through the arteries to the brain"
'Then red Peruvian bark stimulates and
/ builds UP the nerve cells until they begin 80
receive nutrition from the blood ?''
/ Yes, that's it. The only credit claim is
making this discovery and discovering the
/ l2cation of the disease known as dipsOmania. -
'H0w did you discover that red cinchona
/ bark would cure drunkenness 30
''WelI, first discovered it down in Mary
land, twelve years ago. An account was
published in the san At that time. / had a
F case Of drunEard, Bill SteyerS, who also
. had intermittent fever. 1t was a hard case
. 0f fever, and SO tried red Peruvian bark in
stead Of quinine. To my surprise it not
only cured his fever but he never wanted to
drink whisky 2fterwaTd. When he went in
to saloon and the boys asked him TO drink,
I Bill said
Il can't, boys. That dogon red bark the
/ Doctor gave me not only killed my fever, but
. it spoiled all the whisky in Maryland for me. -
what conspicuous cures III Chicago car
( you refer TO, Doctor" o"
''WeIl, DR.. :. B. Noble. He had the alco
+ hOIic disease. His nerve cells were poisoned
+ He was once President Of the Illinois Denta
. Association. He got to be hard drinker
His mind began to be affected, though :
scholar and gentleman, beloved by every
body. He tried red Peruvian bark three
I weeks ago. He's q well man now, and ev
+ erybOdy in Chicago looks at this cure aS
miracle DR.. Noble knows it was disease
+ and don't object to he referred to"
am satisfied that if physicians everywher,
will give DIR. D'Unger'S discovery q trial thcl
will do more for temperance in a year than
Cough and Murphy have done i'm all thei
lives. 1t is the first remedy ever discovered
that kills the disease and the inclination L
drink at one and the same time.