The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-01-14

"You are Just in time" said the
doctor, I'm just going 10 call on pa
tient now, who, though rich man. has
been debauched drunkard for three
years. and a stesdy drinker for fifteen
years. For six weeks he has lain in
his bed IA helpless as child. His
memory was even gone. He has been
taking my medicine for four days"
"Is Mr.. M in bed?" asked the
doctor, as We gave our hats to the SER
want.
"oh, no. he is in the parlor reading
walk in"
And there was this drunkard, still
weak. but mentally cured. When the
the doctor asked him il he had any
longing for liquor. he said:
"No. none whatever. | have eaten
the best meal this morning that have
eaten in fifteen years. am not men
tally distressed, / am strong. aud l
wouldn't take a 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 so happy"
aud then her eyes filed with tears Of
Joy.
"Will that man ever drink again?" /
asked the doctor.
mo; I've never had patient cured
by cinchona rubra return 90 drink
again. They hate the site of liquor.
Now, doctor. / said, "what did you
give the patient? Or in other words.
tell me in plain English what your
medicine is, how you prepare it, and
how any one may give II so "a TO cure
an habitual drunkard-- / mean n drunk
ard with sore eyes, trembling hands,
bloated body, and intellect shattered
by habitual drink.
"My medicine" said the doctor.
"can be bought at any first class drug
store. # is red Peruvian bark (cin-
chona rubral. Quinine is from the
yellow bark (calisaya). Now, there
are eighty varieties of this bank. /
use the bark from the small Of the red
variety. Druggists call il the quill
bark because il comes from twigs about
the size Of quill.
"How do you mix IT."
"I take a pound OF the best fresh
Quill red Peruvian bark (cinchOna
rubra), powder 1t and soak it in pint
OF diluted alcohol. Then i strain it
and evaporate it down 10 n half pint
so il is pound TO half-pint. Any
one can prepare IT, :"
CHOW do you give this medicine?"
81 give the drunken man teaspoon
fril every thee hours, and occasionally
moisten his tongue between the doses
the first and second days. IL acts like
quinine. The patient can tell by a
headache il he is getting too much.
The third day generally reduce the
dose 10 n half spoonful, then to quar-
ter spoonful, then down TO fifteen, ten
and five drops"
"How long do you continue the med
icinef"
From five to fifteen days, and in
extreme cases to thirty days. Seven is
about the average"
"Now, please tell me the philosophy
OF this medicine-why il cures drunk
enness, and how you happened to make
the discovery.
"Well, first you must understand
that intemperance, first habit, finally
becomes a disease. IL becomes a dis
ease Of the nerve cells, or IL talking TO
a physician, / should say it becomes a
disease Of the sensorial ganglia. i
found by dissecting the brain Of a man
who died of delirum tremens that the
cells OF the quadrigeminal body, or the
cells that send the nerves to the eve,
we're in an unnatural state on the out
side, while within the nerve cells them
selves discovered yellow, yeasty-
looking deposit.
"Now, i asked myself what is this yell
low deposit, and what causes this alb
normal look Of the cells. IL is caused,
I learned after much research, by the
ethereal part Of the alcohol going
straight 20 the outside OF these cells
Now, n l drink milk, continued the
doctor, cor eat food, il will take II four
hours TO pass through the digestive or
gans, be taken mp in the blood, and he
passed TO the nerve cells, from which
the brain il fed; while II i drink alcO-
hol, il will go straight 10 the nerve
cells in three minutes. This shows
that alcohol is not digested. IL is not
food. IL is a poisonous fluid elecfrici-
", which goes over the sensitive nerves
as electricity goes over a wire, straight
10 the outside OF the nerve cells. which
IL stimulates artifcially, when they
should be stimulated naturally through
the blood.
"If the spirit part Of liquor, contin-
ued the doctor, 'were digested like
soup, the kidneys and liver would ex-
tract the injurious salts from our food,
and this poison would never reach the
brain. Once stimulated unnaturally
by 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 eat seventy
grains oi morphine a day. Cinchona
rubra stops the call for alcohol"
docs not red Peruvian bark and al.
cohol both stimulate the nerve cellsi
Then why can one cure the other?" ]
/ asked.
"Well, alcohol is fermented, dis
titled stimulant with poison in il, Will,
4 my medicine is n natural stimulant
containing no poison; so nv medicin,
stimulates the nerves, ard not bein1
poisonous, allays infiammation-tha
is, ID holds the cells open until Oh,
J morbid deposit is forced out, aud th'