The herald., 1896-08-31
SPECIAL NOTICES
CURING CURES DRUNKENNESS!
CURING CURES MORPHINE HABIT!
CURING CURES TOBACCO HABIT!


Drunkards are cursed with a craving
gnawing appetite for alcohohc drink.
satisfy. This morbid appetite frequently
has an inherited predisposition as a con
stitutional cause, and with such the
hereditary vice is easily aroused 10 actlN-
ity and becomes an irresist stible controlhhs
influence.
1t is not civilized mans natural dis
position tc relinquish all that serves 70
desire for drink. Such, however, is the
case with dipsomaniacs. The .perlodlcai
drunkard presents no such pCsltlEe pain
ological changes, as he indulges but sci
dom. and allows the system time TO re-
cover by eliminating the poison before IL
has time to cause tissue injuries
Although such men sometimes go to
terrible excesSeS, in some instances pro
longing. the debauch for several weeks
they either have great appetite ana con-
sumo much food, or else they depend
entirely on the liquor for aliment
When quantities of food are ingested
it exercises protecting influence, keep
ing the gastric functions busy. neutrallz-
ing to large extent the poisonous erect
equalize the circulation When the desire
for food is completely suppressed Dy tne
liquor, the system is left unprotected 10
the mercy of the alcohol and the nervous
organs receive the full effects OF the
stimulant.
Many persons in the prime of life per
suade themselves that a moderate use or
liquor taken regularly, even on an empty
stomach. will cause no detrimental re
suits. as they experience no ln1nedlat e
disagreeeble symptoms. Many Will even
claim that their systems demand the
stimulus and that marked benefits follow
its use.
No more fallacious or deceptive idea
can be entertained by healthy man.
The system, 1t is true. becomes nabitu-
ated to the abuse as It does to the mar
cotic poisons-opum hashish, chloral or
tobacco; but let such persons dlscontlnue
its use for any reason, and Tor Weeks
they must suffer with loss OF appetite,
fever, Ians or palpitation, with perhaps
constipation and nervous lrritablhty ana
loss of flesh.
The system has in such cases from
long abuse become changed ana demands
its regular poison to sustain the abnor-
NAL standard created by the liquor. With
hope and all the liner emotions and sensl-
bilities crushed, the victims of the liquor
habit are only capable of causing tears
and shame to all connected with them;
No higher mission comes to the medical
nan-no greater credit can attach TO his
skill-,han to find treatment that can
stay this torrent of misery that flows SO
relentessly over its bed of human
hearts,"
Even more than alcohol, the opium
habit holds its thousands Of victims n
degrading slavery. Since the introduc-
tion of the hypodermic syringe the per,
nlcious juice OF the poppy has destroyed
myriads of human bodies and minds
among the fairest and brightest women
and most intellectual of men. The medl-
cal profession with occasional eXcep-
lions, are too apathetic with respect to
this haunting vice.
They are too often open TO a greater
charge than apathY-they have been in
strumental in teaching thousands, the
way to the worse (because truer) Inferno
than that over which the great Italian
poet inscribed the terrible warning:
Who enters here leaves hope behind"