The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-23
ALL TESTIFY TO ITS MERITS.
Testimonials From Houston
Cure Graduates.
One sA-Patient Says Re Fools Iike one
Fesurrecsoa From the Dead-Anothsr
Feels Twenty Years Younger and an
Well as He Ever Did in His xAso-sorao
Strong Endorsements.

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| IHE TINES has been securing brief
| interviews from graduates of the Hons
ton Narcotic Institute with 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 trestmentis being con-
Quoted strictly on scientific principles,
and 1t remained to ascertain il the in
stitute did just exactly what 1t 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 4e years old, and have
been drinking for % years, aud for the
past few years very hard. For the first
time in ten years, about one month ago.
returned home sober man. The
Houston Institute at Roanoke did the
work for me. On February lat I 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 every
respect new man, with my will power
restored and determined, by the grace
of God, never to let the acoursei stuff
go down my throat again. 1 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 .Hous-
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
hard drinker for about thirteen years
and now feel as IL had never used the
vile stuff and have no desire to return
to it. The physician in charge and all
of the officers connect ted with the insti.
tute are courteous gentlemen and do all
in their power to make it pleasant for
the patients. Hope this writing NAV
influence some OF my fellow men to
break of from the all destroying evil.
~. w. THOMAS.
East Radford, April z. 1893"
j. r. Burt, of Radford, told re.
porter when he was leaving for home
after taking the treatment:
81 am So years Of age and have been
drinking alcoholic liquor for twenty
two years and for the last six years
very hard. l have been sufferer from
rheumatism for three years. About
tour weeks ago l was induced to come
to this institute for treatment. 1 was
told to drink what whiskey wanted,
but after three or four days l didn't
want any more and from that time
until now have been improving all the
time and to-day l feel as we'll as ever
did in my life and twenty years younger
than | did when l entered the insti-
tute. The rheumatism as we'll as the
desire for whiskey is all gone and
would not go back to the drink habit
again for $4,000"
Mr.. John G. McGhee, another patient
whose cure was remarkable, made this
statement: ION March 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 | was. To
make q long story short, I am 80 years
| OF age, have been constant drunkard
| for fifteen years and for the past two
| yeas drank very hard. After three
| weeks treatment at the institute feel
better than | eve did in my life. NV
mind is clearer, eyesight as good. If NOS
| better, than before. / eat we'll and
| sleepwell and leave the institute bouyant
and active, with all desire for strong
drink thoroughly ersdicated from nv
system, and firmly believe that will
from this time henceforth be q strong.
sober man and return thanks for the
kind and courteous treatment received
at the hands of the officers and physi-
clans Of the institute"
Appended Is an extract from letter
of E. Grant Williams who was q Nom
Der OF the first class OF patients cured at
the institute about January 1. When
he came to the institute he had been on
q six months spree and had been very
hard drinkrr for 10 years:
81 think Ii Is about time was writing
to inform you that l am still alive and
we'll and sticking to and advocating the
| Houston treatment. The longer I ssay
away from liquor the less desire have
| Tor 1t, and there Is not money enough in
this State to induce me to ever touch
the vile stuff again. My associates now
are all business people who don't drink,
and at night, instead Of loafng around
the saloons and spending what made
that day, drop in on my patrons and
have chat wi h them. No ono knows
how really good do feel, except those
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