The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-16
A COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION.
The Liquor Habit Should be
Treated as Disease.
1t is no More "a Crime Than Four. Firths
Of All Diseases-Its euro as Radical as
That of Vaccination for Small Pox.
Interesting Statement of Graduate
of the Houston Narcotic Cure.

The excellent work OF the Houston
Narcotic Cure is becoming more and
more evident every week. The cure
is scientific and radical. It is but a.
few years since Jenner discovered that
small pox could be prevented by VAGINA
ton. Before that time small pox was
as dreaded as the cholera and reckoned
it's victims by the hundred thousands
Whole communities were ravaged and
scared by the dread disease. For hun.
dreds of years its ravages were un-
checked. Now It Is harmless. It's
ravages are checked. It ia becoming
an extinct disease in all we'll regu-
lated communities. This is because n
REMEDY was found
So it is with the liquor, opium, NOR
paine and tobacco habits. For hun
dreds OF years they have claimed their
slaves and victims. Sixty Thousand men
each year fill drunkards' graves in the
United States. Drunkenness causes
misery and murder. 1t has no redeem
ing feature. But new idea is born. 1t
is no longer treated as vice but as a
disease. 1t is no more crime than other
diseases Four ffths OF all diseases ia
due to ignorant or wilful Giolation of
natures laws.
BY radical yet thoroughly scientific
course OF treatment the Houston Mar
cotic Cure radically cures those dis
eased appe,ities which arc yearly
wrecking I'll ousands Of homes.
THE TIMES vouches for this, as It has
carefully and thoroughly investigated
its plan of treatment and talked with
its numerous patients and graduates.
Day after day and week after week a
representative OF THE TINES has seen
bleared and sodden victims OF the
liquor habit enter the Houston
Institute and pace themselves
under treatment. He his seen
them cone up from the verge ofdelirium
tri mems, gradually change and steadily
Improve until at ths end Of tbroe or
four weeks they emerged new men,
masters If their minds and bod .es and
appetites. The old. horrible craving
absolutely destroyed. gone FOREVER.
Th cir skin fresh and clear, their eyes
bright ard sparkling. New hope, new
energy, new life in every limb line and
feature. What did II? What worked
this wonderful transformation? The
treatment Of the Houston Institute
A TIMES representative interviewed
Mr.. James w. Johnston, OF Salem, yes
terday. Mr. Johnston is civil engi-
neer by profession and man of more
than ordinary mental ability and infor-
nation. He has just graduated from
the Houston Institute. He talked freely
and without reservation.
81 am 46 years of age" said he, aud
had bean drinking since was Is. was
about % before | became drunkard
and since then have been getting
worse and worse until OF late years my
sprees would last until was bed ridden
My physical condition, too, kept getting
worse. would have violent cram ps 10
my legs, pains in the base of my head,
stiffness of the arms and general weak.
ness as well as disagTeeable functional
irregularities, all going from bad 10
worse.
~ ca ne here three weeks ago and
took tho Houston treatment am
rM plu -.
better physically than "a. any timo in
twenty years. no longer have those
functional disoders. My limbs arc free
from cramps and stiffness. My pains
are gone. am now enjoying the hrss
real happiness since bee sme 4 drunk
ard lean now go back TO my profession
new man.
mot only is my appetite gone, out I
feel as il never wanted to either see
or smell liquor. Even recalling to mind
people that have drank with in years
gone by the fact that I did drink with
them creates feeling of repulsion.
am cured. awell man"
The TIMES reporter looked Mr.. John
ston over. His face is bright; his skin
is clean and ruddy with health; his
eyes are sparkling with new life. One
who was not acquainted with him would
ever suspect that he was the broken
down, dissipated unfortunate man who
entered the Houston Institute three
weeks ago.
The Houston Institute will continue
its beneficiary work and already the