Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-02-20
DIR: D'Unger's cure for Drunken.
less.
From the CitiEeu's League.l

sIle au OpIHloi upou upOil LII u OhS-
er's remedy during the violent attacks
that were made upon him, 4 great
deal Of passion and prejudice were
manifested by the persons opposing
the Doctor, and now that there is q
pause, the League may properly de-
clare It's views on the subject
If cinchora rubra possesses the pow
er 10 cure drunkenness, it is an inesti-
mable boon. aud the discoverer is en-
titled to the gratitude of every lover
of the race.
The mere dictum Of those who are
prejudiced will not settle the question
whether clnchona rubra will or will
not cure drunkenness. There is too
much involved in this matter to per-
nit its being passed over without close
investigation.
The League has no interest in bolst-
ering DR.. D'Unger; but it has deep
and abiding interest in what ever will
cure a mans appetite for alcohol.
This is the question the League de-
sircs to have understood, and it is a
question in which humanity is
very deeply interested. Believing
that the League is serving the cause
of humanity by doing so, few facts
are given in reference to this wonder
full remedial agent.
What is cinchona I? The highest
medical authorities state tibet it is the
best of tonics-that it is safe cumu-
lative medicine, and the only reliable
anti periodic. The cumulative quality
means that it creates no demand; that,
unlike opium, it does not feed upon
itself. Alcohol, like opium, is not
cumulative; it creates constant and
increasing demand. Cinchona cannot
be substitute; neither does it create
a loathing for liquor, but restores the
system to its normal condition.
In the last and best edition (1S76)
of the United States Dispensatory, it
is stated that cinchona is entitled to a
place amoug the tonics, and is ranked
at the head of this class of medicines;
but besides the nero excitation of the
ordinary functions of health, it pro-
duces other effects upon the system
which must be considered peculiar and
independent Of its nero tonic opera
tions. The power by which, when ad-
ministered in the intervals between the
paroxysm of disorders, it interrupts the
progress of a disease, is something
more than what is usually understood
by the tonic property; for no other
substance belonging to the class, how
ever powerful or permanent may be
the excitement which it produces, ex-
ercises a control at all comparable to
cinchona. AS it is probable that in
the Intervals of an intermittent com,
plant train of morbid actions is GO
inc on out of our sight within the re
oesses Of the nervous system, so it /:
also probable that the bark produces
in the same system ar action equally
ysterious, which supercedes that o
the malady, and thus accomplishes thu
restoration Of the patient.
1t has generally been supposed by
physicians that the alkaloids found il
in cinchona contain all it's active prin
ciples, but it is not absolutely certain
that they alone are the only active in
gredients; but even supposing them t.
be SO, it is equally uncertain whethe
they may not be somewhat modified
in their properties, even by the thera
POLITICALLY inert principles with which
they are associated. In fact there j
the highest authority for laying tina
the full powers Of the bark have bee
repeatedly known to cure intermittent
| when the alkaloids failed.
The varieties of the cinchona tire
are numbered by the hundreds Csc
Britannica, article Cinchona, owe
eighty of them being spoken of in tn
American Dispensatory. an innumera
ble number of false and spurious lark
: which the Dispensatory says have a
various times been introduced into tn
market and closely resembling G
indentical with the febrifuge of Peru
2 which experience has proved to diffe
from it materially, both in chcmic;
com position and medicinal virtue!
These barks are known as pale, yello
, and red.
The bark used by DR.. D'Unger is
species of the pale-red spoken of b
DR.. Pereira in his Materin Aedico
: published in 1858. as the original {
e old Loxa Crown bark. DR.. z. d.
scribes this bark, and says it derive