Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-26
DRUNKENNESS CURED.
DR.. D'Unger Interviewed.

Some excitement has sprung u
in temperance circles over the dis
covery of cure for drunkenness
by DR.. Robert D'Unger, of Chicago
A correspondent of the New Yorl
San interviewed him recently anC
elected the following information:
"You are just in time" said the
Doctor, I'm just going to call on
q patient now who, though a rich
man, has been q debauched drunk,
ard for three years, and a steady
drinker for fifteen years. For six
weeks he has been in bed as helpless
as child. His memory was even
gone. lie has been taking my med
icine for six days"
d" Is Mr.. - in bed ?" asked the
Doctor, as VIC gave our hats to the
servants.
"Oh, no. he's in the parlor read
ing,-walk in -
And there was this drunkard,
still weak, but mentally cured.
When the Doctor asked him if he
had any longing for liquor, he said !:
"No, none whatever. [ have
eaten the best meal this morning
that l have eaten in fifteen years. |
am not mentally depressed. l am
strong, and 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 p and then her eyes
filled with tears Of JOY.
"Will that man ever drink
again ?" [ asked the Doctor.
"No. I've never had a patient
cured by cinchona rubra return to
drink again. They hate the sight
Of liquor
CHOW, Doctor" said l, "what
did you give this patient? or, in
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 an habitual
drunkard,-I mean a drunkard with
infamed eyes, trembling hands,
bloated body, and intellect shattered
by habitual drink"
My medicine" said the Doctor,
scan be bought at any some first
class drug store. 1t is red Peru
Wan bark (cincAona rubra). Qui-
nine is from the yellow bark
(caLsaya). Now, there are eighty
varieties of this bark. 1 use the
small limbs of the red variety.
Druggists call it the quill bark be-
cause it comes from twigs about the
size of a quill
GLOW do you mix it Z"
81 take q pound of the best fresh
quill red Peruvian bark (chinch0na
ruJra), powder it and soak it in
pint of diluted alcohol. Then L
strain it and evaporate it down to a
half pint-so it is pound to a half
pint, Any one can prepare it. "
How do you give this medl~
cine %
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 l generally reduce the dose to
a half spoonful, then to a quarter
spoonful, then down to fifteen, ten,
and FIVE drops"
GLOW long do you continue the
medicine p
"From five to fifteen days, and
in extreme cases to thirty days.
Seven is about the average"
"Now, please tell me the philos-
ophy of this medicine-why it
cures drunkenness, and how you
happened to make the discovery"
''Well, first you must understand
that intemperance, first a habit,
finally becomes a disease. 1t be-
comes a disease of the nerve cells,
or, if talking to physician, l
should say it becomes a disease of
the sensorial ganglia. I 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 un-
natural state on the outside, while
within the nerve cells themselves l
discovered a yellow, yeast-looking
deposit.
t'Now, I asked myself what is this
yellow deposit and what causes this
abnormal look of the cells? 1t is
caused, I learned after much re-
search, by the ethereal part OF the