Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-11-03
The Juice Of q Lemon,


That purely physical causes have more
to do with intemperance than any innate
or acquired moral perversity is coming to
be very generally admitted by those who
have made study of the subject. The
power Of the human will, vigorously and
persistently put forth, especially when aid
ed by the,Divine grace, frequently avails to
reform the drunkard, and the instances OF
such reformation are too numerous to al
low room for further question on this point.
Such cases, however, are those III which
the abuse of intoxicating liquors is i'll a
measure voluntary, and therefore subject
to control ON the part of him who has falle n
under the influence of this vice. Even
where drunkenness has become habitual.
if it is merely habit it may be broken oil,
no matter how strong the depraved appe-
tite has become. This is only saying that
in all lapses from morality moral forces
within OF without the man may be ctfec
tiveiy employed to bring him back to
virtue from indulgence in any vice what
ever, unless there are physical conditions
in the cast that require resort to some
thing else.
Where drunkenness is a disease, as 1t
certainly is in many cases, it Is as dlfilcult
to reform from it as it would be TO reform
| from indigestion, rheumatism or any other
malady. In instances Of of the kind sup
posed simply moral appliances are no.
sufficient to effect sure and permanent
results. What may be called the period.
ical-or, rather intermittcnt-drun
comes under this description. He does
not drink habitually and regularly. but
spas,nodicaliy, as it were. lie will go for
months without liquor and apparently
without desiring it, until all of a sudden
he enters upon 4 prOtracted and desperate
debauch. When this is over with he re-
mains entirely sober for another period O;
greater or less duration, and then yields
again.
This kind of drunkard, if he may be
correctly called such, is not led away by
dissolutc companions. lie is not tempted
from without. His first drink is usually
taken alone, and when the spell OF his
long abstinence is once broken he throws
off all restraint and plunges into the
widest excess. lie is for all practical in
tents and purposes beside himself.
The sudden and impcrious access Of this
strange craving for alcoholic stimulants
mystiiies many people, and very few pre-
tend to be able to comprehend it. The
dull, inert condition that almost universally
precedcs such attacks is a fact that needs
to be noted in this connection. This con-
dition is said by the physician to be owing
to an inactive OF torpid liver, and were it
promptly corrected the Overmaste:ins dc
sire for liquor which ss.pervenes would
pass away without being yielded to. To
those who arc afflicted in tic way dc.
scribed. and who will recognize in what is
here said an attempted portrayal of thcil
sad experience, a corrective is recommend.
ed which will be found effective in a great
many cases, and which has the merit OF
being exceedingly simple. 1t is taking
the juice of half Il lemon the last thing al
night before retiring and the first thing or
rising in the morning. 1t can do TO harm
70 try this prescription.