Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-04-27

A visit to the Sauitarium of DR.. Spar.
hawk where the Houston cure is being eff
fected, is one full of interest. The patients
are not required to present themselves at
the Saniterium more than four time each
day, except on Sunday, when only three
applications arc made, giving the greater
time for rest and to absent Themselves for
rel gious and other objects. Not all Of the
pa Is board at the Sanitarium, and some
OF them continue their regular employment
while undergoing cure One Of the advan
tases claimed for the Houston remedy is
the fact that the patient is not sickenel nor
weakened in any way or degree by it, but
it seems, on the contrary, to act as a gentle
and harmless stlmu ent, having calming and
steadying powers from the very outset that
arc wonderful. There is no injury or i'm
psirment whatever to any OF the mental or
physical powers or functions, and the cure
is sure.
1t makes no difference how incredulous
the patient may he, how much he may doubt
the efficacy of tho treatment given him, if
he viii only put himself under the doctors
care for the required time, the good work is
inevitable, he caunot evade it. He is not
deprived OF the alcoholic or other stimulant
to which he has fallen prey. but is allow
ed to continue it sufficiently to guard the
system against reaction or suffering, and at
the end of three to nine days he will invari-
ably refuse it, and even be repealed by 1t.
Three days is gen rally sufficient, but as
many as nine days have been required in a
few extIene cases. At this end Of a short
term Of days,-seldom over three weeks, -
recovery is pronounced complete and it is
only with persistent difficulty and after
months, il at all, that such patient can
again acquire the dreadful appetite from
which he has thus once been fully liberated.
A person radically cured AS all dis.
charged from the Houston treatment any
where have been,- not more likely to re-
turn to the evil than any person never nd
dicted to 1t is to begin it.
These are not speculative statements, but
verified 10y thousands of men and women
cured IN other States, who have escaped the
terrible thraldom of Intoxicating liquors
and druga, who are living witnesses, ea,ily
accessible to anybody who desires absolute
proof of the full truth OF all that is clGi nsd
for the matchless specific that hns done and
is doing more than all else for the cause OF
/ temperance, and to relieve human suffering
| and degradation.
The medicine is injected into the arm with
hypodsrmic syringe that pricks a little,
| like a needle the sensation being similar 10
that of ordinary vaccination, except per-
haps less severe. The time taken for such
operation is only a moment, and then the
patient is given little tonic to drink The
change in the complexion aud manners, and
10 force OF manhood, clearness OF thought
and enunciation IL very marked, and no
| body who has given ths treatment thor
ough unpreiudced investis CATION can rea-
sonably doubt its elmcst miraculous ell
cacy.
The patients include different varieties Of
| liquor drinkers and opium takers, and al
| present interesting jects of study auC
congratulation. Our people have become
sincerely interested in the project, which il
new here but not elsewhere, and all that !,
necessary to enlist the sympathy and sup
| port of the public in the enterprise IS kuowl-
edge Of its success in other places. The ex
pense is not large, especially when one con
siders that man is changed from con
sumner OF wealth to producer.