The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-12
A COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION.
The Liquor Habit Should be
Treated as a Disease.
1t is no More Crime Than Four Fifths
of All Dlseases-Its Cure az Radical as
That of Vaccination for Small Pox.
Interesting Statement of Graduate
of the Houston Narcotic Cure.

The excellent work OF the Houston
Narcotic Cure is becoming more and
more evident every week. The cure
is scientific and radical. It is but a
few years since Jenner discovered that
small pox could be prevented by c,ina-
ton Before that time small pox was
as dreaded as the cholera and reckoned
its victims by the hundred thousands.
Whole communities were rayaged and
scared by the dread disease. For hun.
dreds of years its ravages were I'M
checked. Now it is harnless Its
ravages are checked It is becoming
an extinct disease in all we'll resu-
lated communities. This is bec,use q
REMEDY was found.
So it is with tho liquor, opium, mos
pAine and tobacco habits. For hun.
dreds OF years they have claimed their
slaves and victims. Sixty thousand mon
each year fill drunkards' graves in the
United States. Drunkenness causes
! misery and murder. 1t has no redeem
ing feature. But new idea is born. 1t
is no longer treated as vice but as a
disease. 1t is no more crime than other
diseases. Four ffths OF all diseases is
due to ignorant or wilful ISOLATION of
natures laws.
by radical yet thoroughly scientific
course OF treatment the Houston Mar
cotic Cure radically cures those dis
eased appetities which are yearly
wrecking thousands OF homes.
THE TIMES vouches for this, as IL has
carefully and thoroughly investigated
its plan OF treatment and talked with
its numerous PATIENTS and graduates.
Day after day and week after week a
representative of THE TINES has seen
bleared and sodden victims of the
liquor habit enter the Houston
Institute and pace themselves
under treatment. He has seen
them come up from the verge of delrium
tre mems, gradually change and steadily
four weeks they emerged new mon,
masters of their minds and bodies and
appetites The old. horrible craving
absolutely destroyed, gone forever.
Their skin fresh and clear, their eyes
bright and sparkling. New hope, now
energy, new life in every limb. line and
feature. What did II? What worked
this wonderful transformation? The
treatment of the Houston Institute
A TIMES representative interviewed
Mr.. James w. Johnston, o. Salem, yes
| terday. Mr. Johnston is civil engi-
neer by profession and man of more
than ordinary mental ability and infor
nation. He has just graduated from
| tho Houston Institute. lie talked freely
and without reservation,
81 am 45 years of ago" said he, "aud
had bean drinking since WAS IS. was
about 25 before became q drunkard
| and since then I have been getting
worse and worse until of late years my
sprees would last until was bedridden.
My physical condition, too, kept getting
worse. l would have violent cramps in
my legs, pains in the base Of my head,
stiffness OF the arms and general weak
| ness as well as disagreeable functional
Irregularities, all going from bad TO
worse.
81 came here three weeks ago and
took the Houston treatment / am
cured. Not only am 1 cured. but an
better physically than at any time in
twenty years NO longer have those
functional disoders. My limbs are free
from cramps and stiffness. My pains
are gone. am now enjoying the first
real happiness since became a drunk.
ard. can now go back to my profession
new man.
mot only is my appetite gone. but I
feel as if never wanted to either see
or smell liquor. Even recalling to mind
people that 1 have drank with in years
gone by the fact that did drink with
them creates feeling of repulsion
an cured. l am we'll man"
THE TIMES reporter looked Mr John-
ston over. His face is bright; his skin
Is clean and ruddy with health; his
eyes are sparkling with new life, One
who wss not acquainted with him would
ever suspect that he vas tho broken
down. dssipated unfortunate man who
entered the Houston Institute three
weeks ago
The Houston Inss;tute will conkfnua