The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-13
ACOMPLETE TRANSFORMATION.
The liquor Habit Should be
Treated as a Disease.
1t is NO More a Crime Than Four Fifths
of All Diseases-Its euro as 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 aud
moro 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 vaccine
ton. Before that time small pox was
as dreaded as the cholera and reckoned
its victims by the hundred thousands.
Whole communities were ravaged and
scared by the dread disease. For hun.
dreds of years its ravages were un.
checked. Now it is harmless. Its
ravages are checked 1t is becoming
an extinct disease in all we'll reeu-
lated communities. This is because q
REMEDY was found.
So 1t is with the liquor, opium, NOR
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
isno longer treated as 3 vice but as
disease. 1t is no more crime than other
diseases. Four fifths OF ell diseases is
due to ignorant or wilful siolation of
natures laws.
BY radical yet thoroughly scientific
course of treatment the Houston Mar
cotic Cure radically cures those dis
eased dppetities which are yearly
wrocking th ousands of homes.
THE TIMES vouches for this, as it has
carefully aud thoroughly investigated
its plan OF treatment and talked with
its numerous patients and graduates.
Day after day and We elk after week
representative OF THE TIMES 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 delirium
tremens, gradually change and steadily
improve until at tho end OF three or
II,
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, new
energy, new life in every limb limo and
feature. What did it9 What worked
this wonderful transformation? The
treatment of the Houston Institute.
TIMES representative interviewed
Mr.. James w. Johnston, o. Salon, yes
terday. Mr. Johnston Is a civil ongi.
neer by profession and man of mors
than ordinary mental ability and infor.
nation. He has just graduated from
the Houston Institute. He talked freely
and without reservation
~ am 46 years of age. said he, "and
had bean drinking since WAS Is, was
about 20 before l became 8 drunkacG
and since then nave 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 tho arms and general weak
ness as well as disag reeable functional
Irregularities, all going from bad 10
worse.
81 cane here three weeks ago and
took the Houston treatment am
cured. Not only am | cured, but am
better physically than at any time in
twenty years. no longer have those
functional disoders. My limbs are free
from cramps and stiffness. Ny pains
are gone. am now enjoying the first
real happiness since became drunk
ard. can now go back to my profession
a new man.
mot only is my appetite gone, but
feel as il l never wanted to either gee
or smell liquor. Even recalling to mind
people that have drank with in years
gone by the fact that did drink with
them creates o feeling Of repulsion. I
am cured. 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 was not acquainted with him would
ever suspect that he was the broken
down. dissipated unfortunate man who
entered the Houston Institute three
weeks ago.
The Houston Institute will continue