The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-20

The League Tefrained from express
Ing an opinion upon DR.. D'Cnger's
remedy during the violent attacks that
were made upon him. A great Zeal of
passion and prejudice Were manifested
by the persons opposing the Doctor,
ana row that there is pause, The
Ieugss may properly declare its views
on the subject.
II tifchona rubra possesses the pow
Ell to cure drunkenness, it is an inesti-
anabIs boon, and the discoyerer is enti-
lid TO the gratitude of every lover of
She race.
Tie mere djctatsn Of those who are
prejuGiced. VIII not settle the question
whether cinchona rlibla will or will
not cure drunkenness. There is too
much involved in this matter to per-
init is being passed over without close
investigation
Tile League has no interest in boil
STEERING DR.. D'Unger; but it has q deep
and abiding interest III whatever will
cure a mans appetite for alcohol. This
is the question The League desires to
have understood, and it is IL question
in which humanity is very deeply in
ttWsted. Believing that The League
is serving the cause of humanity by
doing SO, a few facts are given in ref
erence to this wonderful remedial
agent.
What is cinehona? The highest
medical authorities state that it is the
best OF tonics-that it is a safe cumu-
lative medicine, and the only reliable
arlti-periodic. The cumulative quality
means that it creates no demand; that,
unlike opium, it does not feed upon
itself. Alcohol, like opium, is not Gu
mmlative; It. creates constant and in
cleasing demand. Cincll0na cannot be
substitute; neither does it create a
Iloa4l,ing for liquor, but restores the
SYSTEM to its normal condition.
| In the last and best edition 1870 of
/ the United States Dispensatory, it is
stated that cinch0na is entitled to a
place among the tonics, and is ranked
at the head of this class of medicines;
but besides the mere excitation of the
ordinary functions OF health, it pro-
duces other effects upon the system
which must be considered peculiar and
i independent of it's mere tonic opera
tions. The power by w seh, when adj
ministef'ed in the intervals between
the paroxysms of disorders, it inter-
rupts the progress of adisease, is some
| thing more than what is usually un-
derstood by the tonic property for no
1 other substance belonging to the class,
however powerful or permanent may
| be the excitement which it produces,
exercises Il control at all comparable
tC cinchona AS it is probable that in
| the intervals of an intermittent COM
plant train of morbid actions is GO
ing on out of our sight within the re-
cesses OF the nervous system. so it IS
also probable that the bark produces
in the same system an action equally
mysterious, which supersedes that of
the malady, and thus accomplishes the
restoration of the patient.
1t has generally been supposed by
physicians that the alkalolds found in
cinchona contain all it's active princ-
Piles, but it is not absolutely certain
that they alone are the only active in.
gradients; but even supposing them to
be SO, it is equally uncertain whether
they may not be somewhat modified
in their properties. even by the thera-
POLITICALLY inert principles with which
| they are associated. In fact there is
| the highest authority for saying that
! the full powers of the bark have been
repeatedly known to cure intermit-
tents when the alkaloids failed.
4 80. - Ia - -
are numbered by the hundreds ;see
Britannica, article Cinchona), over
eighty of them being spoken Of in the
American Dispensary, besides an innu-
| merable number of false and spurious
banks which the Dlspensatory SAYS
have at various times been introduced
into the market and sold as closely re-
sembling or identical with the febri-
fuge of Peru, which experience has
proved to differ from it materially,
both in chemical composition and med
icinal virtues. These barks are known
as pale, yellow and red
| The bark used by DR.. D'Unger. is u
species Of the pale-red spoken of by
DR.. Pereira in his Moterio Medico.
published in 1858, us the original or
old Loxa Crown bark. DR.. Z. describes
this bark, and says it derives it's name
from the circumstance that parcels of
it We're found on board captured
! Spanish vessel returning from South
America, put up with peculiar care,
and marked as for the Royal family.
1t WAS in slender quilts, thirteen inch
es long, tied up in bundles about three
Inches IN diameter. Similar bundles
were afterwards imported, and still oc
casionally come in seroons Of CONNER
cial Crown bark. This bark is he
lieved to have been derived from cin
cho9aG eo1adamine0, variety gera oi
Weddel; bat as the tree is nearlu e9-
haslsted, little is obtained from il at
present, and what is commonly called
Loxa, or Crown bark, is derived from
other varieties of cinchona coaadanaiaea,
or other species.
DR.. D'Unger's remedy is manufac-
| tured from these peculiar uuil,s which