The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-22
ALL TESTIFY re- IT'S MERITS.
Testimonials From Houston
Cure Graduates.
One ex-Patient Says He Feels Like One
Kesurrected From the Dead-Another
Feels Twenty Years Younger and as
Well as He Ever Did in His Life-some
Strong Endorsements.


THE TINES has been securing brief
interviews from graduates of the Hous-.
ton Narcotic Institute with q view OF
publishing an article on the practical
results of this wonderful cure of the
liquor and opium habits. The reporter
has carefully looked into the theory of
the cure and is thoroughly convinced of
the fact that the treatment is being con-
Quoted strictly on scientific principles,
and 1t remained to ascertain If the in
stitute did just exactly what it claims
to do. The result has been entirely
satisfactory, as few of the many grad
yates interviewed have testified in their
statements given in this article.
w. +. Accord, Of Glen Water, who was
discharged as cured in March, told the
reporter: II am 40 years old, and have
been drinking for % years, and for the
past few years very hard. For tho first
time In ten years, about one month ago,
l returned home sober man. The
Houston Institute at Roanoke did the
work for me. On February 1st l was
induced by kind friends to place myself
in the care of the institute, and at the
expiration Of four weeks left feeling
almost like one resurrected from the
dead, great load was removed from
my shoulders, and l was In eyery
respect new man, with my will power
restored and determined, by the grace
of God, never to let the accursei stuff
go down my throat again. can
heartily indorse the Houston cure for
the liquor disease, and from experience
and observation testify that the treat
ment does not debilitate but builds up
the system
The following certificate is from
recent graduate This is to certify
that have been treated at the sHous-
ton Narcotic Cure Institute for the
whiskey habit and am fully Satisfied the
institute can do all they claim in regard
to curing the desire for drink. was q
hard drinker for about thirteen years
and now feel as If had never used the
vile stuff and have no desire to return
to it. The physician in charge and all
of the officers connected with tho insti.
tute are courteous gentlemen and do all
in their power to make it pleasant for
the patients. Hope this writing may
influence some of my fellow mon to
break of from the all destroying evil.
~. w. THOMAS.
EAST Radford, April z, 1885,"
j. K. Burt, of Radford, told a re.
porter when he was leaving for home
after taking the treatment:
~ am Sc years Of age and have been
drinking alcoholic liquor for twenty
two years and for the last six years
very hard. have been o sufferer from
rheumatism for three years. About
four weeks ago l was induced to come
to this institute for treatment L was
told to drink what whiskey 1 wanted,
but after three or four days didn't
want any more and from that time
until now l have been improving all the
time and to-day feel as we'll as ever
did in my life and twenty years younger
than | did when / entered the insti.
tute. The rheumatism as we'll az tho
desire for whiskey is all gone and
would not go back 10 the drink habit
again for $4,000
Mr.. John G. McGnee, another patienr
whose cure WAS remarkable, made this
statement: ION March 3 I was taken
to the Houston Institute by some
friends for treatment of the
at the time that did NOT
know where | was going and for two
or three days after reaching the insti-
tute did not realize where I was. To
make long story short, am 80 years
OF age, have been constant drunkard
for fifteen years snd for the past two
yeas drank very hard. After three
weeks treatment at the institute feel
better than | ever did in my life. NV
mind Is clearer. eyesight as good. If not
better. than before. / eat we'll and
sleepwell and leave the institute bouyart
and active, with all desire for strong
drink thoroughly eradicated from nv
system, and firmly believe that I viii
from this time henceforth be etronp,
sober man and return thanks for the
kind and courteous treatment received
at the hands OF the officers and physi-
clans OF the institutes
Appended is an extraLt from a letter
OF e. Grant Williams who was 3 MEM
Der of the first class OF patients cured az
the institute about January l. When
he came to the institute he had been ON
six months spree and had been very
hard drinkrr for 10 years:
~ think tits about time was writing
to inform you that l am still alive and
well and sticking TO and advocating the
Houston treatment. The longer stay
away from liquor the less desire have
for 1t, and there is not money enough in
this State to induce me TO ever touch
the vile stuff again. Ny associates now
are all business peonle who don's drink.
and at night, instead OF loafing around
the saloons and spending what N ,de
that day, drop in on my patrons and