The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-27
PROOF POSITIVE OF ITS CLAIMS
Further Testimonials From
Houston Cure Graduates.
1he Times Pushes It's Investigation OF
This Meritorious Institution Still Fur
ther with Still More Satisfactory Re-
suits-Cures That Are Wonderful In
Their Results-what Modern Science
Has Done-Strong Statements Made

The Houston Narcotic Cure COMPANY.
OF Noanoke, does not need to GO away
from its own doors for testimonials OF ia
wonderful work. When men who have
received its treatment and have been
absolutely and radically cured come
forward and volunteer statements even
the most blindly skeptical are compelled
to pause and examine their statements.
The TIMES has been CONDUCTING q
rigid. thorough and critical persopaI
examination into the operations of the
houston cure in Roanoke. This exami-
nation has been entirely free from re-
have been asked every question that
study could suggest. THE TIMES repre-
sentatives have talked freely with the
patients in and out of the institution.
when they were admitted, at various
stages OF the treatment snd after thew
were discharged, and freely stakes its
reputation as a reliable journal upon
the fatth OF the management of tho
houston institute and the absolute
certainty Of its treatment.
10 emphasize further its statemens
tHE TINES declares that medical science
Is far less competent to deal with scarlet
fever, typhoid fever or any Infectious
or contagious disease than the Houston
Cure is to deal with the liquor habit.
Ihis emphatic declaration would not be-
given under any other circumstances
than those surrounding the remarkable
development of the Houston Cure,
which is an agent for good far above
any yet brought to light by medical
science. 1t is q greater boon to man
kind than vaccination for small pox.
Small poX may kill its hundreds and
scar it thousands, but the liquor habi5
Kills its thousands and scars its millions.
NO less wonderful than the radical
character OF the cure is the gratifying
fact that even the traces of the habit.
the hitherto indelible marks of liuuo.
upon the face, are absolutely DESTROYED,
and the countenance CLOVIS with the
now life and cleanliness which is from
within.
A TIMES representative had long
conversation a few days since with Mr..
u. Il. ObenshaiD, a prominent miller and
merchant of Arch Mills, Botetouru
county, who conversed freely concern
Ing his treatment at the Houstsn Insti.
tute.
81 was put to bed drunk when 1 was
years old" said he. "At 25 l was a
periodical drunkard, and up till few
weeks ago kept goiug from bad TO
worse. am now A. years of age. Ten
days before came here 1 had never
L
investigated.
81 was convinced that the treatment
was successful and l started in on tho
2Sth OF February. On the Goth of March
| was discharged and | am O we'll mau.
l have not the slightest desire for LIQUOR.
My system is clear; my health is SO per
cent. better than it has been in yonrs.
MY strength Is visibly greater. feel
reinvigorated in every way. My head is
clearer and my eyesight aud memory
are improved. In taking the treatment
| followed the directions absolutely.
know that I am cured"
Mr.. Obenshain presented all the ap.
peatances OF man in fine physicist
condition. His eyes were clear and
bright and his skin as clear as possible
His flesh is firm and solid, and his grip
strong and steady. The change in his
appearance for the better in the short
space OF four weeks would he hard 20
believe possible to one not acquainted
with the results Of the Houston cure.
One OF the most prominent and widest
known physicians in the State, who for
number OF years has been addicted t.
the excessive use Of whiskey, and who
Tor three years was perfect slave to
the morphine habit was discharged
from the Houston Institute recently
perfectly cured OF both habits, after a
course OF treatment of about five weeks.
few minutes before he left ON the
l2:tS train, in conversation with a
reporter OF THE TIMES, ahe physician,
whose name Is withhold By request,
said: 81 have been r regular practicing
physician for twenty-five years and have
been periodical drunkard nearly the
whole time Three years ago I COM
menced the use OF morphine, taken
through the stomach aud have baen
ever since taking enormous quantities
regularly My stomach was almost
roined and WAS suffering greatly from
kidney trouble. | confes; when came
here was somewhat skeptical, but be-
fore had been in the institute three
days could see the system would do all
1T claimed. For more than year have
been student OF the different methods
OF liquor and opium cures, and have read
perhaps IS much literature on the sub
ject as any physician in the State, and
| ain prepared to say the Houston cure
is superior to any. In my own case I
was entirely cured OF the whiskey habit
before had been under treatment three
weeks, and in four the taste for opiates
was entirely gone as before commenced
the habit.
while under treatment have closely
| watched the other patients and find
that In every case the euro is perfect
and permanent and | notice that nearly
every one who comes here is afflicted
with kidney trouble and they all leave
here perfectly cured of anything Of the
KIM. ! myself am better in that re-
speet than have beea for fifteen years
and also feel better in every respect
saau l have for fivo years, and for tho
'ssst time in the That period l have 3