Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-04-22
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e.,aYar xethods ier Reforming Inc.
briaies and Their Dangers.
tn. n.a,bl., Ial pop,iaa.u, pro.
S,ssiSnsl, ptupHd Tor the cure Of
Snnkesbess are aslrnsny Ind varied Is
Sbe phases Of the disease Itself. But a
marked increase in the number of its
yictims-asshown int1s lSsarly etrnS
Of the causes of fieath-proves plainly
enough that there is no royal road out
AT The CAPTIVITY of alcohol ltis ..i "a
The treatment adopted by most ply
sicisrs is 10 entirely withhold the excit-
ing cause. TO give noWisninc food.
nsrvines and tones. and to allow the
system free field for the action of It's
marrelously actipe recnperaiive powers.
OF the popular remedies for the habit
administered for the most part By the
wives. mo, hers or sisters of the sufferers
few achieve any permanent success.
though they may appear for a time to
be working well. Some of these svs-
tens Of cure are peculiar in their action.
the doses beng intended toinfluence the
moral or intellectual nature of the drunk
ard. while others are expected to cause
the Somach 10 reject liquor or compel
the nervous system To abhor it The
more ambitious popular remedies are
destined TO intimidate the patient and
create superStitious fear of alcohol.
The lsaer i the mostiibgical remedy,
SIS 4 tends through its severe action up
on the nerve centers 10 develop the very
excitement which it is the aim of all
teatmen; for dipsomania to allay.
Thee popular methods are often as
harmless y they are incfHcacious. being
Of the kind OF which ii may be said that
Il they DO no good they will work no in
jury. 4 certain class of them are,
however, lar from harmless. while. The
use of several OF the most popular OF
these means IS attended with great dam
ger,
Perhaps the most hazardous of all the
popular remedies for drunkenness Is the
one to which the female mind has be-
come most largely attached; probably
because it. administration comes directly
withing her own province Ii is the idea
Of MIXING alcohol with allof the patients
food and drink until both BODY aud
mind repo' il, or he becomes so thor
oughly ii, listed with its taste and odor
as 70 -ec. inthereafter forever weaned
from ii.
Tia; TIL method is extremely dam
gerouS, and that it is frequen.ly fol-
lowed ~ brain affections and lass Of fife
itself. i uu fashionable Where death
has sUpeyened. it Is oftener attributed
to the previous drunkenness than to the
remedy. and this is probably the reason
why the method has not yet lost is pop
ularify among those who ere unab,e -
trace the course OF disease induced
bv drunkenness.
DR.. T. ID. Crothers calls attention to
the fact, in 4 recent paper upon the
subject, that he received letter from
an Ohio physician in which it is related
tina, lady in his neighborhood had tried
the plan Of Saturating the food with al
eohol upon an inebriate husband The
result was - develop serious mania AZ
ter five DAYS If treatment, and the man
eomm.im..t 20 an insane asylum as q
dangerous person.
DF. BeiSe. Swedish physician. has
given an account Of this plan Is tested
II :. csholn several wears ago. al
though no accurate knowledge OF its re-
suit appears thu- lar to have reached
the polula- mind through our periodical
literature.
j c.-rg7 man in Sweden, VINO was also
1 physician and a man OF wealth. OBJ
taiaed remission from the authorities
10 receive 5a-bria;es in his home for
by this method Three
chronic ca-es were put under his charge
IAe U4-Ie IL were given brandy in al
th=.F food and drink, and were not al
lowed 30 axe Any form OF food that was /,
not saturated with some form OF alcohol.
Each Ha,Ian' was given the kind Of spir-
il be had used commonly, in addition
TO the brandy. In the course OF two
months siy patients were received and
treated nj this plan. One OF them lied /,
two week after admission, of apoplexy
or cerebral hGnorrhage: two developed /
into dangerous cases of delirium tremens /
and We're sent TO the hospital: the fourth 4
patient became violently deiirious and .
destructive in his mania, and was COM
nit;ed 10 an insane asylum; the other .
Two seemed 10 have gone on quietly, in .
. condition Of semi-stupor or alcoholic .
larcatIsm. The authorities interfered,
and he clergyman was forced to move
away 10 escape persecution from the IL
tignant friends of the patients I
In The year lsJO DR.. Brown wrote to /
he London Times that he had tried this
plan # treatment for two days, in lAree !.
,ases, but the effects We're so alarming
Ia; he gave it up.
Other physicians, successors TO the
clergyman physician of Stockholm, have,
iere and there, approved of the plan,
or DR. Crothers tells Us that he was once
informed by physician that the treat
nent was successful in inebriety. Ii is
lot likely that either DR.. Crothers. OK
nary other physicians agreed with him,
or cases Oi successful treatment by these
means are very seldom reported, and
here Is not L particle of evidence to
how that the same result might not
isTe been achieved without employing
hem. The evidence showing the great
anger of such treatment Is clear and
Inclusive 1t will be perceived that
his method. if used by really compe-
edt physician. would not be "a likely 70
esult IN danger to the patient a. !; Ger
AMY Is when pursued 10y the average
ousewite. no really competent phy>i-
ian would continue the treatment af-
sr the first indication IF a bad gesuli..,
De wife would not understand " ha..i
constituted danger
On The wb.se rhis means If Ereform-
y drunsards shruid f,e ca-etnils let
lone. In may be added taai The at-