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How do you give this medicine?"

the first and second days. 1t acts ike
quinine. The patient can tell by the
headache if he is getting too much.
The third day generally reduce the
dose to half spoonful, then to quar-
ter spoonful, then down to fifteen, ten
and five drops" 'a ..'" pm a'''. n
"How long do you continue the med
icine?"
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 it cures drum
kenness, and how you happened to
make the discovery" ....
well, first you must understand
that intemperance, first a habit, finally
becomes disease. 1t becomes dis
ease of the nerve cells, or if talking to
physician, should say it becomes a
disease of the sensorial ganglia. /
found, by dissecting the brain OF man
who had died of delirium tremens, that
the cells Of the quadrigeminal 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 found yellowish, yeasty-
looking deposit. .r...la gfs
@Now, I asked myself, what is this
yellow deposit and what causes this alb
normal look of the cells? Now, if l
drink milk" continued the doctor, ?" or
eat food, it will take it four hours to
pass through the digestive organs, be
taken up in the blood, and be. passed
to the nerve cells, from which the brain
is fed; while if 1 drink alcohol it will
go straight to the nerve cells in three
minutes. This shows that alcohol is
not digested. 1t is not food. 1t is a
poisonous fluid electricity, which goes
over the sensitive nerves as electricity
goes over wire, straight to the outside
of the nerve cells, which it stimulates
artifcially. when they should be stimu-
lated through the blood.
If the spirit part Of the alcohol,
continued the doctor, 2" were digested
like soup, the kidneys and liver would
extract from it it's poisonous properties
as they extract the injurious salts from
our food, and this poison would never
reach the brain. Once stimulated I'M
naturally by poisonous substance like
whisky, the nerve cells, call for larger
and larger doses, till by and by man
can drink two quarts of whisky or eat
seventy grains of morphine day
Cimchona rubra stops the call for al
cohol." es.......r, ...a a..ssl
"Does not red Peruvian bark and al
cohol both stimulate the nerve cells
Then why can one cure the other?"
asked. ... On
"Well, alcohol is fermented, distilled
stimulant, with poison in it, while my
medicine is natural stimulant, con-
tanning no poison; SO my medicine slim,
ulates the nerves, and, not being poison
Gus, allays inflammation that is, it holds
the cells open until the morbid deposit
is forced out, and the cells accustom
themselves to receive their stimulus
naturally through the arteries. 1t stops
all cravings for alcohol"
"Please explain the passage of food
and poisoned alcohol to the brain
again." said. 80.
"Well, when man drinks alcohol il
goes, like electricity, straight to the
nerve cells; thence to the eye, through
the optic nerves; then to the brain
making man talk lively; then 10 the
spinal center, limbering the back; then
to the muscular system; and, when II
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 stimulates
and builds up the nerve cells until they
begin to receive nutrition from the
blood?"
Eyes; that's it. The only credit ]
claim is in making this discovery and
discovering the location Of the disease
known as dipsomania.
aHow did you discover the red GIN
cbona bark would cure drunkenness?
"Well, / first discovered it down in
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