The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-01-30
DRUNKENNESS CURED.
The Desire Killed and the Appetite
for Drink Completely Eradicated
by cinchona Rubra.
A Discovery by a Chicago Doctor.

A Discovery by Chicago Doctor.
From the New York Sua: The
physicians and temperance men of
Chicago are very much excited over
new remedy discovcd -by DR.. Rob
ert D'Unger which not only cures
intemperance, but leaves the drunk
ard with an absolute aversion 70
spirituous liquors. Mr.. Jos. Me-
dill, the editor of the Chicago Trib.
une, is one of the strongest endors-
ers of the new remedy. Mr.. Medin
has had many scientific articles in
the Tribune about it, and has often
devoted editorial space to make
known to the drunkard that there
is : simple remedy which can save
him.
Yesterday l had a long talk with
Mr.. Medill about this wonderful
discovery, during which he said /:
This is one of the most wonder
full discoveries of the age. DIR.
D'Unger has actually cured $500
cases of the worst forms of intem-
perance. He takes men debauched
by liquor for years-takes a used
up, demented, loathsome sot, and
in ten days makes a well man Of
him, with a positive aversion to
liquor"
"You have seen the medicine
tried, Mr.. MedillY"
"Yes, repeatedly. Why, one of
our first citizens became a common
drunkand a few years ago. He fell
to the lowest depths. He grovelled
in the dust. His wife, a lovely wo-
man, got a divorce from HIM. But
at the last moment, when ready to
die, this mans friends tried this
wonderful remedy. In four days
his appetite came back, and in a
week he gained the use of his
tongue, hands and brain. Then
color came to his cheeks, and IN
two weeks he was a cured mau. He
had no longing for liquor. He pos
itively hates the sight OF it. His
wife and children are delighted,
and tomorrow this reformed and
cured drunkard is to be married
again to the loving wife who had to
leave him year ago"
"Is this medicine a secretp'
"No, not at all. DR.. D'Ungcr is
regular practitioner. He tells the
secret to every one, and many OF
our physicians are using his discov-
cry. 1 will give you a note to him
and he will tell you about it.
Armed with Mr.. MedilPs note
called on DR.. D'Unger at the Pal
mer House.
"You are just in time,' said thC
Doctor. "Tm just going to call OF
a patient now, though a rich man
has been a debauched drunkard foj
three years. For six weeks he has
been in bed as helpless as child
HIS memory was even gone. ii,
has been taking my medicine 70
four days"
Is Mr.-in bedT' asked tn,
Doctor, as we gave hats to the scr
wants.
ooh, no! he's in the parlor read
| lng-Walk In y
And there was this drunkard
still weak, but mentally cured
When the Doctor asked him If hC
had any longing for liquor, he said
''No, none whatever; have eater
the best meal this morning that
have eaten in fifteen years. an
not mentally depressed. i am strong
and l wouldn't take a drink of IL
quor for the world, and"
"Oh, Doctorp interrupted his
wife as she took both his hands
"you have saved George, and We
are so happyr and then her eyes
filled with tears of JOY.
''Will that man ever drink againr''
l asked the Doctor.
mo. I've never had a patient
cured by cincbona rubra return 10
dl ink again. They hate tie sight
of liquor ~
"Nov, Doctor" / 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 it so
as to cure a habitual drunkard-I
mean a drunkard with in1amed
eyes, trembling hands, bloated body,
and intellect shattered by habitual
drink"
"My medicine" said the Doctor,
'can be bought at any iirst-class
drug store. 1t is red Peruvian bark
(cinchona ru5ra.) Quinine is from
the yellow bark (caiysayG.) There
are eighty varieties Of this bark. /
use the bark from the small limbs
of the red variety. Druggists call
it the quill bark because it comes
from twigs about the size of a quill"
"How do you mix itI"
81 take a pound of the best fresh
quill red Peruvian bark { (ciRchona
ru5ra, powder it and soak it In n
pint Of diluted alchohoL Then l
strain it and evaporate it down to a
half pint. Amy one can prepare it.
"How do you give this incidence
sH give the drunken man a tea
spoonful every three hours, and oc-
casionally moisten his tongue be
tween the doses the first and second
DAYS. 1t acts like quInine. The
patient can tell by a headache if be
IS getting too much. The third day
1 generally reduce the dose to a
half spoonful, then to a quarter
spoonful, then down TO fifteen, ten
and five drops"
"How long do you continue the
medicinep
"From five to fifteen days, and in
extreme cases TO thirty days. Seven
is about the average"
"Now please tell me the philoso-
phy OF this medicine-why 1t cures
drunkenness, and how you hap
pened To make the discovery"
"Well, first you must understand
that intemperance, first a habit,
finally becomes a disease. 1t be-
comes disease Of the nerve cells,
or if talking to a physician, ! should
say it becomes a disease Of sensori-
al ganglia. found by dissecting
the brain of man who bad died Of
delirium tremens that the cells Of
the quadrigeminal body, or the
cells that send the nerves 10 the