The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-09
ALL TESTIFY TO ITS MERITS.
testimonials From Houston
Cure Graduates.
One ex-Patient Says He Feels Like One
Resurrected From the Dead-Another
Feels Twenty Years Younger and as
Well AS He Ever Did in His Life Some
Strong Inducements.

1hE TINES mas been securing bief
interviews from graduates OF the Hous-
ton Narcotic Institute with view OF
publishing an article on the practical
results of this wonderful cure of taa
liquor and opium habits. The reporter
has carefully looked into the theory OF
the cure and is thoroughly convinced &C
the fact that the treatmentis boing con-
Quoted strictly on scientific principles,
and 1t remained to ascertain il tho in
stitute did just exactly what it 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. f. Accord, Of Glen Water, who was
discharged as cured in March, told the
reporter: II am 4e years old, and have
been drinking for 90 years, and for the
past few years very hard. For tho first
time in ten years, about one month AFRO.
returned home o sober man. The
Houston Institute at Roanoke did the
work for me. On February Ist was
induced by kind friends to place myself
in the care OF the institute, and at the
expiration OF four weeks l left feeling
almost like one resurrec ted from tue
dead, great load was removed from
my shoulders. and | was ia every
respect new man, with my will D ,wsr
restored and determined, by the grace
OF God, never to lot the accursei stuff
go down my throat again. can
heartily indorse the Houston cure for
the liquor disease, and from experience
and observation testify that the trent
ment does not debiltate but builds M
the system"
The following certiic Ite is from a
recent graduate: This is to certify
that have been treated at the .uous-
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 az il l had never used the
vile stuff and have no desire to return
to it. The physician in charge and all
of the officers come cted with tho insti,
tlte are courteous gentlemen and do all
in their power to make il pleasant for
the patients. Hope this writing m,y
influence some of my fellow mon to
break oil from the all destroying evil.
~. w. THOMAS.
East Radford, April Z. 1898"
| j. K. Burt, OF Radford, told re-
! porter when he was leaving for home
after taking the treatment:
81 am 81 years OF are and heyo been
drinking alcoholic liquor for twnnty-
two years and for the last six ycacs
very hard have been q sufferer from
rheumatism for three years About
our weeks ago | was induced co come
20 this institute for treatment. was
! told TO drink what whiskey | wanted,
but after three or four days didn't
want any more and from that time
until now have been improving all the
time and to-day | feel as we'll "a ever
did in my life and twenty years younger
| than ] did when | entered the inSti-
! tute. Inc rhenma: ism as we'll as the
| desire for whiskey is ali gone and /
would not go back TO the drink habit
| again for $4,000"
| Mr., John c. McGhee, another patient
| whose cure was remarkable, mado this
stat+ ment: ION March 8 | was taken
to the Houston Institute by some
friends for treatment OF the
| liquor disease So drunk was
at tue 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 long story short, am 80 years
! OF age. have b@en q constant drunkard
| for fifteen years and for the past two
yea drank very hard. After three
weeks treatment at the institute | feel
! better than | ever did in my life. NV
mind is clearer, eyesight as good if not
better, than before. eat we'll and
sleepwell and leave the institute bouyant
| and active, with all desire for strong
( drink thoroughly eradicated 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
81 the hands OF the offlcers and physi-
clans of the institute"
! Appended is an extraLt from letter
or +. Grant Williams who was a mem
oer OF the hrst class OF patients cured as
the institute about January /. When
be came to the institute he had been on
SIX months spree and had been very
hard drinkrr for 10 years:
II think It Is about time was writing
TO inform you that / am still alive and
well and sticking to and advocating the
Houston treatment. The longer stay
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's drink,
and at night, instead OF loafing around
! the saloons and spending what made
/ that day, drop in on my patrons aud