The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-12-23
RECORDG HAGEY INSTITUTE.
Large Number Of Men Treated With the
Best Of Results.

November I'd, 1896, the Hagey InsCi-
tute was opened for the treatment of
alcoholic, morphine, opium and tobac-
| co diseases. Since that time q pa
/ tients have presented themselves for
treatment. Five of the above number
were for tobacco, and the remainder
| for alcohol. The experience of many
of those who have received treatment
is we'll known, testimonials having
been printed of their experience. Ii
is the uniform opinion of all who have
tested the cure that the sensations I'M
ldergone during the period of treatment
are mild and harmless. AS one of the
patients remarked: 81 have experienced
far more inconvenience and discomfort
in getting over a spree than 1 have I'M
dergone taking the cure
The treatment is absolutely harmless
and no one need have any apprehen-
sion of the after effects. For years the
treatment has been given with the
most satisfactory results in America,
land there are many men of great prom
fnence in business and professional
circles who have entered the Hagey IN
stitutes and who today consider it one
of the best acts of their lives when
they took the treatment.
Some men have the idea that it is
only when a man loses his money,
friends and reputation by drinking that
lit becomes necessary for him to take the
treatment The time for person to
take a treatment for alcoholism is
when the habit or more properly speak
ling. the disease has such a hold upon
him that he can not quit it of his own
volition.
oh l can quit or let it alone, just
as 1 want to- says some.
If you can, and if you do quit at the
time when you find it is injuring you,
But how many times have you prom
ised yourself, your friends, and your
family that this was your last, and
only to be Inundated by repeating the
offense time and time again.
What causes a man to act so when
he has determined to stop? The an
swer is: 1t is a disease, and when the
disease gets the mastery of the man
he succumbs to it, and is to be pitied,
rather than censured.
1T takes will power to quit drink
ing" says another. His tory is re-
: plete with instances of men of the
most forceful character who have sue
cumbed to the evil effects of excessive
drinking From the time that mighty
warrior of acknowledgements the
Great-at the sound of whose name
nations trembled and Emperors and
Kings waited to do his bidding, from
the time he was cut off in the zenith of
his brilliant career of excessive drink
ing, down to the present time, there is
an array of the names of those whom
the world have considered wise and
great that have succumbed and gone
down in the gloom of defeat before
King Alcohol.
The mighty army of those who have
met their doom from excessive drink
ing are legion. 1t is estimated that
over 100000 die annually in the United
States from overwhelming.
We are not here to conduct a crusade
upon the liquor traffic. 1t is recOg-
nized and provided for by law and Ii
censed accordingly. We have this to
say that there are many men here in
Honolulu, as there are in all large cit
les, who are injuring their health their
business. social standing and render
ing their families unhappy by exces-
sive drinking To these We say we can
assist you to free yourself of this trOu-
BILE
We make this proposition to any
man who drinks to excess that we Will
absolutely take from him all desire or
inclination to drink intoxicants, and in
doing this will not injure his health,
, but on the other hand, it is the uni
form experience of all that their gen
eral health is greatly improved. Why
should man hesitate to be treated for
t this disease more than any other? No
: prominence is given to any one by TAX
I ing the treatment The names of the
members of the Institute are never
? used without their permission.
AS to the excessive use of tobacco, it
can be said that it is one of the great
est means known to mankind to bring
= about a disordered state of the nerv-
Gus system. There are some men who
are so powerfully constituted that to-
bacco has apparently little evil effect
upon them. But the mass of tobacco
users are injured by the use of the
weed, and there are many men who
are undermining their general health by