Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-11-22
DRUNKARDS NO MORE.
Or. A. RI. Thompson of LaBelle,
Missouri, Does Grand Work
for the Temperance Cause.
lie Cures Drunkenness.


for the Temperance Cause.
lie Cures Drunkenness.
He does that which deserves
the approval and support of all
mankind.
Could the noble men and women
who are striving to free this world
of ours from intemperance, visit
the town of LaBelle, Mo-, they
would see that which would make
their hearts glad. There they
would witness the conversion OF
drunkards into men of sobriety
and usefulness.
Intoxicating liquors have des-
troyed more lives than war, pesti-
lence and famine combined. Have
broken hearts of fathers, mothers,
sisters, brothers, wives and chill
dren; have wrecked homes,
caused crimes, and, in fact, are
responsible for most of the sins of
the human race. Should any one
hesitate when the opportunity Of
fers to aid some person to break
the shackles of inebriety!
The writer of this article has
made a number of visits to La
Belle for the purpose of inquiring
into the merits of DR.. A. M Thomp-
sons cure for drunkenness. After
a thorough investigation we are
perfectly satisfied that it is all
that DR.. Thompson or his most
enthusiastic friends claim for it.
Those who have taken both treat
ments say that it is as far superior
to the Kelley treatment as the elec-
trio light is to the tallow dip.
DIR. Thompson conceived the
belief from boyhood that drunk
eness is disease as much so as
typhoid fever or erysipelas. He
began the study of inebriety, dip
somania or alcoholism in the win
ter of 1S67-eleven years before
DR.. Kelley appeared upon the
scene. He recognizes two classes
of Observation-Disclosures and dip
somania, and holds that the treat
ment of the liquor habit belongs
to the domain of the physician
rather than to the enthusiastic ora
tions of the temperance lecturers.
He insists that the true medical
treatment of this disease consists
in the employment of remedies
that will cure the desire and ne
cessity for strong drink. The con-
tinued use of intoxicants soon gets
the system in such condition that
liquor has an Office to perform in
the functions of the brain and
body. In this condition the vic
tim of the liquor habit is mvre
tightly fettered than was the Afri-
can slave before the war. AS the
African slave was freed so can DR..
Thompson free the alcohol slave
of to-day. The use of intoXicat-
ing liquors, so DR. Thompson says,
a few years, even if only moderate
ly used, must inevitably result in
a disease known to the medical
world as alcoholism or in another
disease known as dipsomania. AL
coholisim is constant desire for
Intoxicating liquors, while dipso-
mania is periodical desire for
strong drink. In the latter case a
man may abstain for months or
sometimes years, but it is as much
a disease as alcoholism, and un-
less cured the brain tissues of the
victim will cry aloud to be re-
charged with alcoholic stimulants.
In such condition the victim would,
if it were possible compass heaven
and the bottomless pit to crafty
the wants of the nerve centers.
But continued debauchery leads to
alcoholism and alcoholism leads
to death.
But, as we said before, this di-
sease is durable. DR.. Thompson
has mastered it and guarantees a
cure in ten days to three weeks.
and the patient, under DR..
Ihompson's treatment, knows
as certainly when he is cured
as does the patient who has
recovered from an attack of ty-
phoid fever. He demands no
money until the patient is cured,