Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-04-14

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aggeratiun, born of imagination.
Such an over night work OF fair
les is too unnaturalt to be entitled
to belief" 1t is perfectly nat
ural and is a most wonderful
illustration of the influence of
matter over mind. | know II TO
be true. 1t is automatic with ME.
| am stating absolute substan-
tive facts.
Will these results be rerma-
nent? do not know of my own
knowledge. l have heard more
than half hundred honest ear
nest men say that they will be.
Statistics show that more than
90 per cent are; and in the in
stances of failures the treatment
is not necessarily responsible.
Suppose the patient violates all
the hygienic rules necessary to
enable science TO work etiectu
allv, narcotics his system dur
ing the period necessary for sci
ence to vindicate itself. traitor.
ouslv to himself and science, and
the doctor, pours stolen drinks
into his system Just when and
where the tide OF battle turns
and keeps alive the camp fires OF
the enemy, is it any marvel that
the passion remains burning;
and is it any fault OF the treat
ment??
But if science is so potent why
do its votaries call to its aid
moral and religious support
They reply. how long will you
abuse our patience! Is anybody
so unreasonable as to suppose
this science can be divorced from
those conditions which are essen
tial TO work out her results, those
aids which have uniformly and
i'll all time been accorded to all
other remedies for all other dis
eases.
1t is not true land il is too
much to ask that this treat
ment induces such n condition Of
the patient that he is unable to
drink intoxicants. He can drink
under precisely the same condi
tions in which he first began
when his system was in its first
state, e., in n normal condition.
But when he drinks simply from
choice, not urged By either suf-
fcring, want or necessity, how
many men in their senses will do
it If they do they alone are
responsible, and God pity them
for their day is done. This is all
that it assumes to do.
get these impressions land |
am observing everything relating
to this subject with an intense
INTEREST," from an intimate rela-
ton with and from the lectures
of DR.. Jas. J. Mooney, the skiltul
and untiring specialist as well as
general physician here at this
North Conway Institute; whose
duties are so various and ardu-
Gus and whose experience person
ally and otherwise render him SO
remarkably efficient; becoming
so far rs consistent the friend
and companion of each subject,
cheering him with story, and
song, instilling into his mind the
true nature of his disease and its
terrible consequences, and what
resolutions and principles it is
requisite and necessary to keep
alive in the memory of the pa
tient in order to aid science and to
accomplish and secure those re-
suits which are the ends and pur.
poses of this system of treatment
One thing which occurs to me is
that each person seems to be
treated according to the specia
condition Of his system, from
" hich it removes difficulties ever
other than alcoholic.
One word more as to the reluct
ance with which individuals com,
here. 1t is generally supposed
that the associations will be un
pleasant and that the chagrin o
coming will weigh heavily. This
impression is entirely erroneous
There is no public house in TIT
country where better manners arr
discovered, and the kindly natur,
of the manager, Mr.. Gould, ano
his family, is constantly employed
. to make every Circumstance