The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-11
ALL TESTIFY TO ITS MERITS.
Testimonials From Houston
Cure Graduates.
One ex-Paaient Says He Feels Like One
hes"rrseted From the Dead-Another
Feels Twenty Years Younger and ne
We'll ss he Ever Did in His Life-some
Strong Endorsements.

0Auio representative OF
sHE TIMEs has been securing brief
interviews from graduates of the Hous-
ton Narcotic Institute with view of
puohshing an article ON the practical
results of this wonderful cure of tho
liquor and opium habits. The reporter
has carefully looked into the theory OF
the cure and is thoroughly convinced Of
the fact that the treatments being con-
Quoted strictly on scientific principles,
and 1T remained to ascertain IL the in
ssitute 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: 81 am 4s years old, and have
been drinking for 80 years, and 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 was in everv
respect new man, with my will power
restored and determined, by the grace
OF chod, never to let the sccursed 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 uu
the system"
The following certificate is from a
recent GRADUATES: "Thls is to cer.ifv
that have been treated at the Hons
ton Narcotic Cure Institute tor the
whiskey habit and am fully satisfied the
institute can do all they claim in regard
to curing the desire for drink. was a
hard drinker for about thirteen wears
and now feel as il had never used the
vile stuif and have no desire to return
to it. The physician in charge and all
of the officers connected with the insti-
tute are courteous gentlemen snd do all
In their power to mako 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:
- am All Vaarq 0f ara ord h,uo 49,
drinking alcoholic liquor for twenty
two years and for the last six years
very hard. have been sufferer from
rheumatism for three years. About
four 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 didn's
want any more and from that time
until now have been improving all the
aid in my life and twenty years Younger
than l did when 1 entered the insti-
tute. The rheumatism as well as the
deslre Tor whiskey is all gone and I
would not go back to the drink habit
again for $40, OOO"
MIR. John G. McGhee. another patient
whose cure was remarkable, made this
statement: ION March 3 I was taken
to the Houston Institute by some
iflenos ioT treatment of the
liquor disease. So drunk was
at the time that did not
know where l 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 been a constant drunkard
for fifteen years and for the past two
yeas drank very bard. After three
weeks treatment at the institute feel
better than ever did in my life NV
mind Is clearer, eyesght 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 freceived
at the hands OF the officers and phvsi-
clans OF the institute"
Appended is an extraLt from a letter
OF f. Grant Williams who was mem
Der OF the first class OF patients cured ae
the institute about January Wnen
ne came to the institute ne had been on
a six months spree and had been very
hard drinkrr for 10 years:
VI think tits about time was writing
10 INFORM you that | am still alive and
wen and sticking to and advocating the
houston treatment. The longer | stay
away from liquor the less desire have
for it, and there is not money enoughin
this State to induce me to ever touch
the vile stuff again. My associates now
are sll business people who don't drink,
and at night, instead of loafng around
the saloons and spending what made
tnat day, drop in on my patrons and
nave chat with them. No one knows