The herald., 1896-06-28
CURING CURES DRUNKENNESS!
CURINO CURES MORPHINE HABIT!
CURING CURES TOBACCO HABIT!

Drunkards are cursed with a craving.
gnawing appetite for alcoholic drink.
which appetite they cannot control or
has an inherited predisposition as con-
stitutional cause, and with such the
hereditary vice is easily aroused TO actlV-
ity and becomes an Irresistible cOntrolllng
influence.
1t is not civilized mans natural dis
position to relinQuish all that serves 70
make life happy in order to satisfy his
desire for drink. Such, however, IS tne
case with dipsomaniacs. The periodical
drunkard presents no such positive path
illogical changes, as he indulges but sell
dom, and allows the system time TO re-
cover by eliminating the poison before II
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 depenu
entirely on the liquor for aliment.
When quantities Of food are ingested
it exercises protecting influence, keep
ing the gastric functions busy, neutraliz-
ing to large extent the poisonous eitect
of the liquor, and therefore tending TO
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
Stimulant.
Many persons in the prime of life per-
suade themselves that a 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 benefits follow
its use.
No more fallacious or deceptive idea
can be entertained by healthy man
st 10 H..
ated to the abuse as it does to the mar
cotic poisons-opium, hashish, chloral or
tobacco; but let such persons discontinue
its use for any reason, and Tor weeks
they must suffer with loss of appetite
fever. pains or palpitation, with perhaps
constipation and nervous irritaplhty ana
loss of flesh.
The system has in such cases from
long abuse become changed and demands
its regular poison TO sustain the apnor-
NAL standard created by the liquor. With
hope and all the finer emotions and sensi-
bilities crushed, the victims OF the lquor
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
skill-than to lind q treatment tnat can
stay this torrent of misery that flows so
relentlessly over its bed OF human
hearts"
Even more than alcohol, the opium
habit holds its thousands of victims in
degrading slavery. Since the introduc-
tion of the hypodermic syringe the per-
nicious juice of the poppy has destroyed
myriads of human bodies and minds
among the farest 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.
CURING