The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-26

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of Roanoke, does not need to 90 AVA
from its own doors for testimonials of its
wonderful work. When men who have
received its treatment and have been
absolutely and radically. cured come
forward and volunteer statements Gwen.
the most blindly skeptical sre compelled
10 pause and examine their statements.
The TIMES has been conducting a.
rigid. thorough and critical personal
examination into the operations of the
Houston cure in Roanoke. This exami-
nation has been entirely free from re-
straint The manager and physician
nave been asked every question that
study could suggest. THE TIMES repre.
sentatives have talked freely with che
patients in and out OF the institution.
wnen they were admitted, at various
stages OF the treatment and after thew
were discharged, and freely stakes it's
reputation as reliable journal upon
the FAITH of the management of the
houston Institute and the absolute
certainty Of its treatment.
40 emphasize further its statement
!HE 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.
This 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 greater boon to man
Kind than vaccination for small pox.
Small poX may kill It's hundreds and
scar 1t thousands, but the liquor habit
Kills Its thousands and scars its millions.
NO less wonderful than the radical
character OF the cure is the gratifying
iact ina even the traces of the habit,
Inc hltnerto indelible marks of liquor
upon the face, are absolutely DESTROYED,
ana the countenance glows with ths
new life and cleanliness which ia from,
within.
TIMES representative had lonr
conversation few days since with Mr..
H. L. Obenshaip, o prominent miller and
merchant OF Arch Mills, Botetourt
county, who conversed freely concern
ing his treatment at the Houstsn Insti-
tute.
II was put to bed drunk whom 1 was
years old" said he. "At a5 was a
periodical druukard, and up till few
weeks ago l kept going from bad to
worse. am now AZ years Of age. Ten
days before came here 1 had never
heard OF the Houston cure. came and
investigated
II was convinced that tho treatment
was successful and l started in on the
2sth OF February. On the Goth of March
was discharged and am a we'll man.
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. 1 feel
felnvigorated in every way. My head is
clearer and my eyesight and memory
are improved. In taking the treatment
l followed the directions absolutely.
know that l am cured"
MIR. Obenshain presented all the ap.
peatances Of man in fine physical
Gondltion. 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 be hard TO
believe possible to one not acquainted
with the results of the Houston cure.
One OF tho most prominent and widest
known physicians in the State, who for
number OF years has been addicted to
the excessive use Of whiskey, and who
Tor three years was 8 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.
A few minutes before he left on the
l2:45 train, in conversation with a
reporter OF THE TIMES, tho physician,
whose name IS withheld by request,
said: II have been a regular practicing
physician for twenty-five years and have
been periodical drunkard nearly the
whole time. Three years ago | com.
menced the use of morphine, taken
through the stomach, and have been
ever since taking enormous quantities
regularly. My stomach was almost
ruined and was suffering greatly from
kidney trouble. 1 confess when came
here was somewhat skeptical, but be-
fore had been in the institute three
days could see the system would do all
it claimed. For more than 3 year nave
been student OF the different methods
OF liquor and opium cures, and hayeaea
perhaps as much literature on the. sub
jet as any physician In the State. and
AIN prepared to say the Houston cure
Is superior to any. In my own case
was entirely cured OF the whiskey habit
before had been under treatmena three
weeks, and in four the taste for opiates
was entirely gone SIS before commenced
the habit.
"While under treatment ha 20 closely
watched the other patients and find
that in every case the cure is perfect
and permanent and notice that nearly
! every one who comes here 10 afflicted
with kidney trouble and they all leave
here perfectly cured OF anything OF the
kind. \ myself am better in that re-
| spect than have been for fifteen years
and also feel better in every respect