The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-12-14
NATIONAL TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL OF
THE VI r. r n

Does any one know that there is a
Natiors. Temperance Hospital where
all the patients are treated without the
use OF any alcoholic stimulants what
ever? Well, thsre is: it is in Chicago.
In treating over 700 cases, no death &C.
Cured, though in number of cases on
entering, recovery seemed very doubt
full. Other hospitals are sending in
numerous inquiries as to how the med
icines are prepared, and letters from
druggists are sent asking If the medi-
cines used there are to be placed in the
market, also grocers asking for the
non-alcoholic flavoring attracts used
there. All indicate an arrest of
thought. In this hospital allopathists
cannot be distinguished By their tine
lures, nor homeopathists by their lit
tie pills. The basis of tinctures being
alcohol, and the medication of little
pills being by alcoholic preparations,
this hospital rigidly excludes both
tinctures and dilutions, and chemists
prepare the remedies used in aqueous
or saccharated extracts or powders.
Under the law, everyone has right
to his life, and the right to use liquor
TO save life is admitted in all legal de-
cisions. Our laws are only against its
use "as beverage" But the w. G..
T. U. believes, and is demonstrating in
this hospital that liquor does not save
life and that it has no place in medi-
cine. ave cannot tolerate unity be-
tween alcohol and medicine" is our
watchword, and He who said, "touch
not the unclean thing" is our inspira-
ton. This hospital is growing 80 fast
it needs more room. A building is
sadly needed large enough to take in
all classes of cases, and for on. nurses
I'm training, and for laboratory where
under carefully selected w. G. Il. U.
chemists can be prepared non-alcohol-
ic medicines which shall be kept in ev-
cry drug store in the land. There is
certainly great need to revolutinnize
the present methods of preparation of
medicines. Anything that will be the
means of abolishing the use of liquid
patent medicines which contain from
five to seventy.five per cent. ofalcohol.
ic liquors-will be hailed as the dawn
of brighter day. DR.. Mary Week,
Burnett, president of the association,
save, ave must also have medical
college where our young men and
women can have sound temperance
teaching in the lecture room and at
the bedside" These buildings are all
planned. but it will require $3.50 900 to
build them, and we ought to be able to
raise the entire amount within the
next year. The plan for the hospital
is main building with wings. Any
one building wing has the privilewe
of naming it, aud may decide what
class of cases shall occupy it. Miss
Alice Guernsey has plan of ten cent
shares by which the Loyal Legions
can build children's wing. A num-
Der of requests have been made during
the last year, that there be memorial
building, so that States and individ-
uals may perpetuate the memory of
persons and loyal deeds. Not in mar
bic shafts whose only use is TO defy the
wind and weather, nor memorial win
dows which are at the mercy of every
wind that blows, but memorial rooms
and buildings which shall be put to
use for suffering humanity and be en-
during monuments of helpfulness aud
love. xxx.