The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-01-09

uer IL auu ooah IL III piut VI ulluteu dicO- |
hol. Then l strain il and eyaporate it
down to half pint-so it is "a pound to a
half pint. Any one can prepare it." p
"How do you give this medicine ?"
81 give the drunken man d tcaspoonful
every three hours, and occasionally moisten
his tongue between the doses the first and
second days. 1t acts like quinine. The
patient can tell by headache il he is get
ting too much. The third daI generally |
reduce the dose to half spool1 then to
a quarter spoonful then down 70 fifscch, ten
and five drops"
.'How long do you continue the medi-
cine 2"
"From five to fifteen days, and in ex-
treme cases to thirty days. Seven is about
the average"
"Now, please tell me the philosophy of
this medicino-why it cures .irunknness,
and how you happened to make the discov.
sry?"
"Well, first you must understand that
intemperance, first habit, finally becomes
disease. 1t becomes disease of tho
nerve cells, or, if talking to physician,
should say it becomes disease of the sem
sorial gapgalia. l found by dissecting the
brain of a man who had died of delirium
tremens that the cells of tho quadrigemnal
lody, or the cells that send the nerves to
the eyes, were in an unnatural state on the
outside, while within the nerves themselves
| discovered yellow, yeasty- looking deposit.
Now, asked myself what is this yellow
deposit and what causes this abnormal look
of tho cell 1t is caused, 1 learned after
much research, by the ethereal part of the
alcohol going straight to the outside ofthese
cells. Now, if L drink milk" continued
the Doctor, cor 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 L drink alcohol it will 20
straight to the nerve cells in three min nutes.
This shows that alcohol is not digested.-
1t is not food. 1t is poisonous fluid elec-
trieity, which goes over che sensitive nerves
as electricity goes over wire, straight to
the outside of the nerve cells, which it slim.
ulates artifcially, when they should be
stimulated naturally through the blood
eff the spirit part Of alcohol" continued
the doctor, ''were digested like some, the
kidneys and liver would extract from it its
poisonous properties as they extract the iu-
furious salts from our food, and this poison
would never reach the brain. Once stim-
ulated unnaturally, by poisonous substance
like whisky, the nerve cells call for larger
and larger doses, till by and by man can
drink two quarts of whiskey or eat seventy
grains Of morphine q day. Ct;nchona ruJra
stops the call for alcohol"
isnnnc pot rod D,r,y;,n L., ,,L o,,l ,l.ol Il
stimulate the nerve cells Then why can
one cure the other 2" | asked.
"Well, alcohol is fermentcd, distilled
stimulant, with poison in it, while my me-
dcinc is natural stimulant, containing no
poison so my medicine stimulates the
nerves, aud, not being poisonous, allays iu-
aammation, that is, it holds,the cells open
until the morbid deposit is forced out, and
tho cells accustom themselves to receive
their stimulus naturally through the arteries.
II stops all craving for alcohal1-s2
'Please explain tho passage of food} ahd
poisoned alcohol to the brain again, said.
"Well, when man drinks alcohol it goes
like electricity, straight to the nerve cells !;
thence to the eye, through the optic nerve
then to the brain, making man talk lively;
then to the spinal centre, limbering the
back then to the muscular system, and,
when it finally gets to the stomach, he vom.
its. Food goes just the opposite direction,
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 l claim
is making this discovery and discovering
the location Of the disease known as dip.
somania."
''IIow did you discover that red cinchona
bark would cure drunkenness 2"
"Well, first discovered it down in Mary
land twelve years ago. Ar account was
published in the Sun at that time. had
case of drunkard-Bill Stevens-who
also had intermittent fever. 1t was hard
case Of fever, and so tried red Peruvian
bark instead Of quininc. TO my surprise,
it not only cured his fever, but he never
wanted to drink whiskey aterward. When
he went into saloon and the, boys asked
him to drink, Bill said:
81 cant boys. That doggone red bark
the doctor gave me not only killed my fever
but it spoiled all the whiskey in Maryland
for me-"
"What conspicuous cures in Chicago can
you refer to, doctor Z"
"Well, DR.. s B. Noble. He had the
alcoholic disease. His nerve cells were
poisoned. He was once President of the
Illinois Dental Association. lie got to be
hard drinker. His miud began TO be af.
tectcd, though scholar and a gentleman,
beloved by everybody. lilo tried red Pc.
ruvian bark three weeks ago. He's well
man now, and everybody in Chicago looks
a his curn &c n ,pirocla nr Nntl, L,o,r,