The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1894-06-25
N INTEREsTiNa sT,iTEuENr.
An Open Letter From One Of Our Towns
men Giving Remarkable Experience.
New HAVEN, June 20 1894.

an opeh iottef FROM bhc OF our ToNns=
men Giving n Remarkable Experience.
New HAVEN, June 20, 1894.
To tho Editor JOURNAL AND COURIER,
Sometime near the beginning Of the
present year my attention WIS called TO
the advertisement in the COURIER OF the
Bellinger German Remedy company of
this city and its cure for opium, NOR
phine and kindred diseases. Being n
sufferer from the use of these drugs, /
determined, after consultation with
friends, to test the merits Of the Ger
man remedies. Believing that my res
toration TO perfect freedom from the
drug and the time that has elapsed since
was discharged as cured warrants me
in giving fun statement concerning
my case, do SO with the earnest desire
that may through the columns Of your
valuable medium reach some, who, suf-
fering from the terrible bondage of the
opium or morphine habit, may in like
manner rs myself be fully and COM
pletely restored to their normal con-
dition.
had been an almost constant user
of narcotic poisons for more than seven
teen years, and after this long bondage
had come so near to the period Of utter
and final breakdown as to make the end
of worldly labor matter Of few
months, and life itself an uncertain
quantity. Within the past year SYM
toms too grave and certain to be misun-
dcrstood were growing worse every day.
But what could one do? Nothing, so
far rs they know. As well ask the con-
victed felon over whom the death
watch keeps ceaseless vigil day and
night what he can do when neither par
don or reprieve can be hoped f0f.
Many an unequal fight the writer had
made us others have done, but IL was as
one against host. Twice put under re-
extraordinarily gain the prom
Used case, undergoing the awful suffer-
! ing, the subsequent weakness, the par
tial restoration known so well by NOR
| phinc victims under like circumstances,
only TO relapse again into the old bond
| age, TO ones own humiliation, and to
the distrust not to say the disgust of
fricnds.s And this relapse was not due
| to want of appetite or Il fair digestion,
| but simply from insomnia and that fear
full collapse of the nervous and mental
powers so sure to follow the sudden
abandonment of these drugs.
1t was under such conditions that my
| family physician of New Haven told
| my wife that he knew of remedy that
would set me free and I~could be, re-
stored to health. Our confidence i'll
him, through long acquaintance, gave
us both some hope; but with myself
| little confidence i'll the result. Still, as
''court of last resort, consented to
| try it. Scarcely four months ago the
treatment began, and I can say to-day,
with q heart full of thankfuness to
God and to- the kind, patient ply
stefan who uses these remedies,
that the awful curse has no more power
over me. Its letters are broken and
scattered at my feet. I have in draw
er of my desk at my place of business
an interesting relic-that is, interesting
to me-a three ounce bottle which four
months ago was draining of pure land-
anum every day, and sometimes more.
Now go about the streets with no crav-
ing for it whateveD with clear eye and
skin, voice no longer harsh but deep
and strong, countenance so changed
and appearance so improved that peo-
pie look on me and wonder, and some
hardly seem to know whether it is my
self or someone else. ~
But some sufferer may ask, tell us
| just how these remedies work. The first
two weeks of treatment will not be UNI
like the two preceding it, and with sleep
improved. The last three or four will,
l think, be more disturbed, but there is
no pain to be feared. No nausea, no
fever heats, nor icy chills, nor dripping
perspiration, nor fearful diarrhea nor
long sleepless nights, nor horrible gnaw-
| ings like those of the ''undyng woGm,"
no whacking of the head on the bed
post nor watching nor need of watch
| ing. You are free to eat the restricted
diet and roam about at your own sweet
| will. The diet is low during treatment,
little solid food being allowed, and this
with the rapid changes taking place i'll