The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-05-01
TEMPERANCE NOTES,
,DocToRING DRUNKENNESS.
How u Jolly NAssachusetts Physioiar
Gets Good Big Income.

Nels u 5000 big Income.
"Hallo doc! VIII you join me?"
''NO, thanks. Inever drink"
1.-The devil you don't. WHY. Won
spend half your time in barroom. I'll
bet have not been in here for month
without seeing you sitting here at one
of these tables
''Well, Charlie, that is how | make
my money. More than half of nv
business is done with the boys who
patronize the bars of the big hotels. i
come down about eleven o'clock in the
morning, when the boys begin to con-
greGate, and get introduced by one to
another. l tell them stories, make
various excuses to avoid drinking, take
a light lunch about noon and 90 home
in season to take my five o'clock din
ner. Then, if | have no callers, take
an hours nap and am ready for work.
occasionally go to the theater or
concert with my wife, but when do
not, | go to bed by ten o'clock, sleep
eight hours, take a cold sponge bath,
eat small breakfast of hearty food,
and, by that time, am pretty sure to
see some of the boys you are apt to meet
here during the day or evening, and
who come to me to get off in season
to go to their business downtown"
You don't mean that you have a
regular business in this line, do you.
doctor?"
'Certainly!' replied the jolly doctor,
who prescribes massage instead of
ointments, long walks instead of drugs
and healthy exercise and regular hours
instead of dyspepsia specifics. The
man who has been drinking wine or
whisky half the night gets up in the
morning with his nerves in such con-
dition that walking and talking are Il
burden, while the task of writing is
one that he shudders at. lie comes to
me, and | strip him and give him a Wig
orous dose of massage for an hour or
less, and he goes away perfectly
Strengthened out for the time being.
"If he keeps up this sort of life it
will kill him, or at least destroy his
life in short time, and l tell him so.
But as temporary eXpedient the
treatment is very effective.
"Once in awhile in an extreme case
| advise the man to go and take
Turkish bath if he has the time to
spare. But these baths, while appar-
emily wonderfully restorative for the
time being to the man who has in
dulged too much in stimulants, are
very eXhausting in nature when taken
under such circumstances, and | only
prescribe them in cases of extreme
necessity.
Now, the application of massage
treatment requires great deal of
strength. If | should indulge in liquor
or tobacco it would vitiate some of my
strength, and, in the course of time,
would be absolutely unable to keep
up my practice. | can only retain my
vigor by the most careful obedience to
the laws of nature. Strong and well as
l am, a single glass of whisky would
reduce my vigor for two or three days,
while the mildest cigar would probably
unfit me for work the next morning
after indulgence.
You see that man who nodded to
me. He has just called for brandy and
abSinthe. He comes to see me about
twice week. He was probably too
busy this morning, and now he seeks to
get through the day by taking the worst
decoction possible. l have warned him
against it dozens of times, but he keeps
up the practice, partly from habit and
partly because he thinks he cannot help
it. Tomorrow he will be at my house
at 7:3O, SO that he can be fixed up for
his business which begins at ten o'clock.
After that he will not drink anything
until after three, and perhaps nothing
at all tomorrow"
"Well, doctor, what is the best meth
cd for SOLDERING off? Is it yours"
''Of course, have followed my meth
cd for more than twelve years, and it
has never failed"
Does it include anything else beside
the massage treatment?"
1T does not include that, even. My
method is not to drink nor to smoke; to
get fair amount of exercise; take reg
ularly eight hours sleep, when l can;
10 eat small meals of hearty food three
times day, and when am very tired
TO drink a little of very strong coffee,
During all these years l have been
-sobered off all the time.
Try it. You will find that it will
beat all the other schemes in the world"
boston Herald.