The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-06-09
/" "soBERINe OFF"
what Chicago Doctors Say Is the best
Courss 90 be Pursued by the Victims
Of Confirmed Alcoholism.

[Chicago MALL
Is there any one course better than
another for man to adopt in endeav-
Oring TO break himself of the drinking
habitl
The Mail sought to obtain from
those who should be best Informed a
practical answer to the above question.
A number of leading physicians have
been visited and given set of ques-
tions put to each. The result Of these
interviews Is here presented.
"Ah," said DR.. Charles Gilman
Smith, "they never do taper off. The
way to break off drinking is to stop,
and stop short. In stopping don't use
bromides unless the reforming drinker
can't sleep. Use the fluid extract of
cocoa leaves. That's kind Of stimu-
liant, not 80 dangerous as alcohol, per-
haps, although its continued use i'm
pairs the heart. Ii is hard to lay
down n general course of medication,
since every case is diffent. A physi-
clan must prescribe for patient what
he particularly needs. AS TO diet, it
should bc generous and rich mot
fatty or greasy but strengthening. If
the patient cant sleep let him take a
brisk walk before bedtime and get
himself tired out Regular exercise
in = gymnasium you can rarely get a
drunkard to take. The man who
leaves off drinking had better stop
smoking too. Tobacco has a relaxing
effect on the system. Stop both to-
gether. It will pay"
"Will q man recover his old phys-
cal and mental tonei Well, if he
leaves of altogether he will practi-
cally be a. good . man as he was be-
fore he began to drink"
j. Adams Allen, President Of the
Rush Medical College, said blnffiy:
"If . mans going TO stop he's got to
stop, and there is an end of it. Don't
let him try to taper off. ALI nonsense
But he ought never to try TO quit
without consulting a physician. be-
cause q steady drinker Is sure to have
some organic trouble of the liver or
kidneys which whisky spurs to action,
aud which becomes forbid when II is
left. He don't want tonics and other
stimulants to stay him up. A good
desc of calomel to set the liver going
right is worth them all. Yes, leave
of tobacco, too. 1t is harder to break
of than liquor drinking"
DR.. n. B. Delamater, the specialist
in nervous diseases took q decidedly
different view of the propositions. He
said: whether the would be reform
cd drunkard shall taper off with light
wines and short rations of drinks de-
pends entirely on the indivual. He
who is anxious to quit and is man of
strong will and in the habit of con-
trolling himself in other ways, and is
able to Withstand the pain ana suffer-
ing, can do either way. There is less
suffering tapering eff than stopping
suddenly. A man who is not accus-
toned to controlling himself would
either TO have TO be put under res
trsint or be obliged to taper off.
"Ordinarily the man will begin to
feel better in three weeks time. The
normal tone ought to be restored in a
couple Of months unles some organic
disease has been developed. Some
men can regain everything they have
lost. Others cannot. 1t depends on
the man and itdepends on the amount
Of drink he has INDUCED in. Those
men or finer quality of nervous tenn
permanent are those who are most
bound by liquor and to whom the
damage is most permanent. Coarse
brutal natures are not much affected.