The herald., 1896-06-16
SPECIAL NOTICES
CURING CURES DRUNKENNESS!
CURING CURES MORPHINE HABIT!
CURING CURES TOBACCO HABIT!

Drunkards are cursed with a craving,
gnawinS appetite for alcohohc drink.
which appetite they cannot control or
satisfy. This morbid appetite frequently
has an inherited predisposltlon as a CON
Stitutional cause, ana with sucn the
hereditary vice is easily aroused to acuN-
ity and becomes an irresistible controlling
influence.
1t is not civilized mans natural dis
position tc relinquish all that serves to
make life happy in order to satisfy his
desire for drink. Such. however Is til'
case with dipsomaniacs. The perlodlcGl
drunkard presents no such positive path
ological changes, as he indulgeS Dut sci
dom, and allows the system time TO re
cover by eliminating the poison pelofe 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 d great appetite and con,
sumo much food, or else they depend
entirely on the liquor for allment.
When quantities of food are ingested
1t exercises a protecting lnruence, Keep
ing the gastric functions busy, neutrallZ-
ing to a large extent the poisonous erect
of the liquor, and therefore tend1ng 10
equalize the circulation. When the desire
for food is completely suppressed by the
liquor, the system is left unprotected TO
the mercy of the alcohol and the nervous
organs receive the full effects OF the
Many persons in the prime of life per-
suade themselves that moderate use OF
liquor taken regularly, even on an empty
stomach, Will cause no detrimental re-
suits as they experience no immediate
disagreeable symptoms. Many will even
claim that their systems demand the
stimulus and that marked Dement'S follow
its use.
No more fallacious or deceptive idea
can be entertained by a healthy man.
The. system, 1t is true, becomes habitu-
ated to the abuse as it does TO the mar
cotic poisons-opum, hashish, choral or
tobacco but let such persons discontinue
It's use for any reason, and for weeks
fever, pains or palpitation. with perhaps
constipation and nervous irritability and
loss OF flesh.
The system has in such cases from
long abuse become changed and demands
its regular poison 10 sustain the abnor-
NAL standard created by the liquor With
hope and all the finer emotions and Sensi-
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
man-no greater credit can attach to his
skiil-than to find a treatment that can
stay this torrent of misery that flows so
relentlessly over its bed of human
hearts"
habit holds its thousands of victims in
degrading slavery. Since the introduce
tion of the hypodermic syringe the per-
nicious juice. of the poppy has destroyed
myriads of human bodies and minds
among the fairest and brightest women
and most intellectual of men. The medi-
cal profession, with occasional eXcep-
tions, 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