The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1880-01-30

| 'en' Nau teii ny heauacne IL ne ls getting
too much. The third day l generally re-
duce the dose to a Tablespoonful, then to
a quarter spoonful, then down to fifteen, ten
and five drops
How long do you continue the medi-
cine Z?
| From five to fifteen days, and in extreme
cases to thirty days. Seven is about the
average
Now tell me the philosophy of this
medicine-why it cures drunkenness, and
how you happened to make the discov-
ery.'
| We'll, first you must understand that in
temperance, first a habit, finally becomes
disease. 1t becomes disease of the nerve
cells, or, if taking to a physical, I should
say it becomes a disease of the sensorial
ganglia. found by dissectng the brain
of man who had died of delirum tremens
that the cells of the quadrigeminal body, or
the cells that send the nerves to the eye
were in an unnatural state on the outside,
while within the nerves themselves | dis
covered yellow, yessty looking deposit
Now, | asked myself what is this yellow
deposit and what causes this abnormal look
of the cells 1t is caused, learned after
much research, by the ethereal part of the
alcohol going straight to the outside of these
cells Now, if drink milk" continued the
doctor, 'or eat food, it will take four hours
to pass through the digestive organs, be tax
en- up in the blood and passed to the nerve
cells, from which the brain is fed while if
| drink alcohol it will go straight to the
nerve cells in three minutes. 1t is not food,
1t is poisonous fluid electricity, which goes
over wire, straight to the outside of the
nerve cells. which it stimulates artificially,
when they should be stimulated naturally
Through the blood. If the spirit part of al
cohol, continued the doctor, were digested
like food the kidneys and liver would extract
from its poisonous properties, ,as they extract
the injurious salts from our food, and
this poison would never reach the brain.
Once stimulated unnaturally by poisonous
substance like whisky, the nerve cells call
for larger doses, till by and by man can
drink two quarts of whisky or eat seventy
grains of morphine a day. Cinchona rubrd
stops the call for alcohol
DO not red Peruvian bark and alcohol
both stimulate the nerve cells Then why
can one cure the other p | asked.
well, alcohol is fermented, distilled
stimulant, with poison in it, while my medi.
cine is natural stimulant, containing nc
poison so my medicine stimulates the nerves
and, not being poisonous, allays infiamma
tion-that is, it holds the cells open unit
the morbid deposit is forced out, and tn,
cells accustom themselves to receive thei
stimulus naturally through the arteries.
stops all craving for alcohol
, Please explain the passages of food anC
poisoned alcohol to the brain again.
said
2 WELL when man drinks alcohol it goe
} like electricity, straight to the nerve cells
thence to the eye, through the optic nerve
s then to the brain, making man talk lively
then to the spinal centre limbering the bacl
, then to the muscular system, and, when i
finally gets to the stomach he vomits. Fooc
goes to the stomach first, then into the bloc,
then to the heart and, finally, through tn
. arteries to the BRAIN
:, Then red Peruvian bark stimulates an
builds up the nerve cells until they begin t
receive nutrition from the blood?
Yes; that's it, The only credit claim
: ma4ing this discovery and discovering tn
location of the disease known as dipsc
: mania.
:, How did you discover that red cnchon
bark would cure drunkenness?
=, We'll, | first discovered it down in Mary
land twelve years ago An account wa
published in the Sun at that time. had
! case of a drunkard-Bill Stephens-who a
= so had intermittent fever. 1t was har
= case of fever, so l tried red Peruvian bar
instead of quinine. To my surprise it onl
cured his fever, but he never wanted t
drink whisky afterward. When he went il
:. to saloon and the boys asked him to drinl
) Bill said
. 4 can't boys. That doggone red bark tn
doctor gave me not only killed my fever, ,br
, it spoiled all the whisky in Maryland fc
: me-
+ What conspicuous cure in Chicago ca
!, you refer to, doctor?
! We'll, DIR. S. B, Noble. He had the a
= coholic disease. His nerve cells were DO
:, soned. He was once president of the Ill
:, nois Dental Association. He got to be har
drinker. His mind began to be affecte,
~. though scholar and a gentleman, believe
by everybody, He tried red Peruvian bar
three weeks ago. He's well man now an
= everybody in Chicago looks at his cure as
miracle. DR.. Noble knows that it was
:, disease, and don't object to be referr,
u to-
N am satisfied that if the physicians
+. New York will give DIR. D'Unger's disco
a. cry trial they will do more for temperan
,e in year than Cough and Murphy ha
done in all their lives. 1t Is the first rem
,e dy ever discovered that kills the disease al
n the inclination to drink at one and the san
M time.