The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-20
A COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION.
The Liquor Habit Should be
Treated as Disease.
1t is no More Crime Than Fonr. r,e,ba
Oh All Diseases-Its Cure as Radical Ms
That of Vaccination for Small Pox.
interesting Statement of a Graduate
OF the Houston Narcotic Cure.


Inc excellent work of the Houston
Narcotic Cure is becoming more and
more evident every week. The cure
Is scientific and radical. 1t is but a
few years since Jenner discovered that
small pox could be prevented by vaccina-
tion' Before that time small pox was
as dreaded as the cholera and reckoned
its victims by the hundred thousands
Whole communities were rayaeed and
scared by the dread disease. For hun.
oreds Of years its ravages were un.
checked. Now it is harmless. TIA
ravages are checked. It ia becom;nr
an extinct disease in all we'll repu-
lated communities. This ia because ,
REMEDY was found.
So 1t is with the liquor, opium, NOR
paine and tobacco habits. For hpn.
dreds OF years they have claimed their
slaves and victims. Sixty thousand men
each year fill drunkards' graves in the
United States. Drunkenness causes
misery and murder. 1t has no redeem
ing feature. But a new idea is born. II
Is no longer treated as q vice but as
disease. 1t is no more crime than other
diseases. Four fifths OF all diseases ia
due to ignorant or wilful violation 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 vonches for this, as it has
carefully and thoroughly investigated
It's plan OF treatment and talked with
its numerous patients and graduates.
Day after day and week after week a
representative of THE TIMES has seen
bleared and sodden victims of the
liquor habit enter the Houston
Institute and place themselves
under treatment. He has seen
them como up from the verge OF delirium
cremens, gradually change and steadily
Improve until At the end OF three OF
TOUR weeks they emerged new men,
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, line and
feature. What did 1t? What worked
this wonderful transformation? The
treatment of the Houston Institute.
"A TINES representative interviewed
Mr.. James W. Johnston, OF Salem, yes
terday. Mr.. Johnston is a civil engi-
neer by profession and q man of mort
than ordinary mental ability and infor-
nation. fLe has just graduated from
the Houston Institute. He talked freely
and without reservation.
u am 96 years Of age," said he, "and
had bean drinking since I was 10. vas
about 2S before 1 became drunkard
and since then 1 have been getting
worse and worse until of late years nv
sprees would last until was bedridden.
My physical condition, too, kept getting
worse. would have violent cramps in
my legs pains in the base Of my head,
stiffness OF the arms and general weak
ness as we'll as dissgreeable functional
Irregularities, all going from bad to
worse.
I'll csne 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. NV pains
are gone. am now enjoying the FIRST
real happiness since l became a drunk
ard. can now go back to my profession
= new man.
mot only is my appetite gone, but
feel as if never wanted to either.see
or smell liquor. Even recalling to mind
people that have drank with in wears
gone by the fact that did drink. with
them creates feeling OF repulIon.
am cured. am we'll man"
THE TIMES reporter looked A.r, John
sson over. His face is bright ,.his skin
is clean and ruddy with health; his
eyes are sparkling with news life. One
who was not acquainted wish him weald
ever suspect that he was, the hsoken
down. dissipated unfortunate maa who
entered the Houston institutS three
weeks ago.
The Houston Instimte will continue
its beneficiary wosa and already she