Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-04-14

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and make poverty for every man who
will continue it long enough. Fill a
mans stomach with some drug, such
as used by the drunkenness cure" and
you can make liquor disagreeable to
him, but it is only q matter of time
when he can again cultivate the de-
sire. Shut up the saloons and stop
making poisonous liquor and then a
cure will be had whether it's a disease
or habit. -Lacon Owl.
THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL.
The following statement is from the
report of DR.. Chas. G. Davis, the head
of the medical staff:
Every day sees some new triumph
for our anti-alcoholic treatment. Gases
in which a few years ago alcohol was
considered indispensable are now being
treated much more successfully than
under the old regime. In looking over
the medical department our attention
is called to a typical case of typhoid
fever, which was brought to the hospi
tai in an almost moribund condition.
The patient, 81 years of age, showed a
frail constitution, almost exhausted
and delirious. Shortly after admission
severe hemorrhages from the bowels
began and continued at intervals for
several days until he was almost pulse
less. Under the old treatment alcohol
would have been almost certain death.
But no alcoholic liquors were admin
istered; he grew better, and after a few
weeks has been discharged from the
hospital cured.
But in the surgical department is
found the greatest record for encour-
agement. Some years ago land even
now with some surgeons) it was con-
sidered dangerous to perform a surgi.
cal operation of any gravity without
first dragging the patient with whisky,
brandy, or some equally strong alec
holic liquid. Our hospital has demon
strated the absurdity and danger of
this. Many valuable lives are I'M
doubtedly sacrificed every yearthrough
the error of administering alcohol dur
ing surgical operations. Alcohol is a
represent to the heart, blood vessels
and nervous system. The patient is
compelled to bear both the operation
and the alcohol. We find on the re-
cords of the hospital notes of a recent
case of ovarian tumor. The patient was
a woman 30 years of age, the tumor
was very large and she was almost ex-
hausted from a long illness. Before
and during the operation the pulse was
scarcely percpetible at the wrist, but
under the use of non-alcoholic stimu-
lants she rallied; the tumor, which
weighed 80 pounds, was removed and
she has gone home cured and happy.
Every week sees some triumph like
this, and the hospital is daily gaining
in popularity. Patients are coming
from all I've America for surgical and
medical treatment, not through any
advertising that has been sent abroad,
but alone through the merits of the in
stitution. What a great field this is
for temperance work! When the prin-
ciples advocated by the National Tenn
perance Hospital are fully demon
strated then the battle is won and tenn
perance has become an established
fact! Let the good work go on"
Archdeacon Farrar being once asked
why he took so prominent a part in the
temperance reform when untouched by
its evil influences himself replied: sat
the entrance of one of OBJ college
chapels lies a nameless grave; that
grave covers the remains OF one of its
most promising fellows-ruined by
drink. | received not very long ago a
letter from an old s~choolfellow, a cler-
gyman, who, after long and arduous
labor, was in want of clothes and al
mostfood. inquired the cause; it was
drink. A few weeks ago a wretched
clergyman came to me in deplorable
misery, who had dragged down with
him into ruin his family. What had
ruined him? Drink When | was at
Cambridge one of the most promising
scholars was a youth, who, years ago,
died in a London hospital, penniless,
o. delirium tremens, through drink.
When | was at Kings College l used
to sit next to a handsome youth, who
grew up to be q brilliant writer: he
died in the prime Of life, a victim of
drink. once knew an eloquent phi
lanthropist who was a very miserable
man. The world never knew the curse
which was on him; but his friends
knew it was drink. And why is it that
these tragedies are daily happening?
1t is through the fatal fascination, the
seductive sorcery of drink, against
which Scripture SO often warns. 1t is
because drink is one of the surest of
the devils ways to man, and of mans
ways to the DEVIL"
NARCOTIC DEPARTMENT.
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