Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1886-04-23
CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS METHODS.
In the Treatment Of the victims Of Aico-
Gradual Leaving on.

In the Treatment of the victims Of Alec.
holism-- Gradual Leaving on.
A controversy has arisen in and about
the Inebriate home at Fort Hamilton,
down the bay, The difference is in opinion
as to whether sots under curative treat
ment ought to have alcoholic drink. It
used to be the practice in this institution
to deprive the patient altogether of liquor
from the moment of their entrance, and
no form of alcohol was put into the medi-
cines administered A radical change Of
medical policy has been made whereby a
tappering-of process is employees and
this is assailed by the total-abstinence
people on both moral and physical
grounds.
The departure from previous methods
In such institutions is chiefly due to DR..
Lewis Mason, the homes consulting ply
stefan, and upon him the wrath OF the
radicals descends. he says; II have had
an asylum experience Of almost twenty
years, and am. fully satisfied that no
hard drinker should be suddenly cut off
from all intoxicants, but that his supply
should be gradually reduced until point
OF total abstinence is reached. In this
home and others l have seen the most
awful sufferings result from the usual
mode of treatment. The inebriates are
brought in with their nervous systems all
aquiver their digestion disarranged and
their appetite for stimulant wildly
aroused.
1--WE formerly shut them off entirely
and spells Of delirium tremens commonly
followed Hardly a patient escaped a
period of this acute mania. We were
loath to let any drinking be done in the
home on general principles, but we have
had to come to the belief that we were
mistaken in that view Of the subject We
now administer ale, but sometimes dis
titled liquor, beginning with as much as
pint of malt fluid every two hours until
the patient sleeps naturally. Then we di-
minish the quantity and frequency, SO
that usually in a week or two he is total
abstinence man" The condemners Of this
plan will undertake to thwart it by APP
peal to the courts.-New York Cor. Chi
cago Tribune.
Hfisdeeds of Macedonia Highwaymen.
The Haidouk bands, composed of
Greeks, Bulgarians, Arnaouts, and
Vallacks, are so numerous that no one is
in safety. They attack solitary travellers
and caravans, besides villages, levy con-
tributions on inhabitants, and even carry
off as hostages public functionaries and
influential citizens from large towns,
In addition to the misdeeds of highway
men and the malversation Of func
tionaries Macedonia suffers from the
rapacity of another set of vultures per-
haps even more insatiable-the clergy,
which, whether Mussulman or Christian,
shows that its understanding Of its mis-
sion is to grind down its parishioners.
The first teach that it is praise
worthy to kill an infidel and in
cites to violence, knowing that IMMUNITY
is certain as in that case at Okride,
in 1879, when wedding breakfast party
was fired into and the bride shot dead, as
also were her two bridesmaids, for which
the inurderers were reprimanded by the
publicly, shat it surely would not have
happened IL those kiupeks Edogsl had sent
him PRESENT."
OF the other class quite as much evil
may be said. If they do not actually MUIR
der they instigate it's commission, and no
one ever pretended to doubt that when a
newly-appointed curate at Katorska fell
dead at the altar it was the former in
cumbent who poisoned the chalice to pre-
vent his own removal by the despot, or
bishop, by whom he had been warned that
"only the direct interference of God could
prevent his removal, as the stranger papaz
had paid the ego which were in arrears as
diocesan dues" This is textual, and the
case is authenticl-Paris Cor New York
Times.