Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1879-01-08

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81 give the drunken man tea
spoonful every three hours, and
occasionally moisten his tongue be-
tween the doses the first and second
days. 1t acts like quinine. The
patient can tell by headache if he
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"
allow long do you continue this
medicine p
From five to fifteen days, and in
extreme cases to thirty days.
Seven is about the average"
"Now, please tell me the philoso-
ply of this medicine-why it cures
drunkenness, and how you happen
cd to make the discovery"
"Well, first you must under
stand that intemperance, first a
habit, finally becomes a disease.
1t becomes a disease of the nerve
cells, or if talking to a physician, |
should say it becomes a disease of
the sensorial ganglia. found by
dissecting the brain of man who
had died with the delirium tremens
that the cells of the quadrigeminal
body, or the cells that send the
nerves to the eye, were in an I'M
natural state on the outside, while
within the nerve cells themselves l
discovered yellow, yeasty-looking
deposit.
"Now, l asked myself what is
this yellow deposit and what causes
this abnormal look of the cells 1t
is caused, / learned after much re-
search, by the ethereal part of the
alcohol going straight to the out
side of these cells. Now, if /
drink milk" continued the Doctor,
cor eat food, it will take four hours
to pass through the digestive
organs, be taken up in the blood,
and be passed to the nerves cells,
from which the brain is fed while
if / drink alcohol it will go straight
to the nerve cells in three minutes.
This shows that alcohol is not di-
gested. 1t is not food. 1t is a
poisonous fluid electricity, which
goes. over the sensitive nerves as
electricity goes over the wire,
straight to the outside of the nerve
cells, which it stimulates artificially,
when they should be stimulated
naturally through blood.
eff the spirit part Of alcohol"
continued the doctor, "were digest
ID like soup, the kidneys and liver
would extract from it its poisonous
as they extract the in
furious salts from our food, and
his poison would never reach the
brain. Once stimulated unnatural
y by poisonous substance like
the nerve cells call for
arger and larger doses +; by and by
/ man can drink two quarts of
or eat seventy grains of
day. Cinchona rubra
stops the call for alcohol"
"Does not red Peruvian bark and
alcohol both stimulate the nerve
,ellsl Then how can one cure
The other 2" asked.
"Well, alcohol is fermented,
distilled stimulant, with poison in
t, while my medicine is a natural
containing no poison ; so
ny medicine stimulates the nerves,
Ind, not being poisonous, allays in
iammation-that is, it holds the
,ells open until the morbid deposit
$ forced out, and the cells accustom
themselves to receive their stimulus
through the arteries. 1t
stops all craving for alcohol"
"Please explain the passage of
God and poisoned alcohol to the
rain again." / said.
"Well, when man drinks alcohol
goes, like electricity, straight
o the nerve cells thence to the
ye through the optic nerve; then
0 the brain, making a man talk
vely; then to the spinal centre,
mbering his back; then to the
VASCULAR system I; and, when it
nally gets to the stomach, he
omits. Food goes just the OPP
osite way. Food goes TO the
;omach first, then into the blood,
ZEN TO the heart, and finally