The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-12
AN ANTIDOTE
TO ALCOHOL
Excessive Drinkers Now Using Vino
KOIafra With Great and
Prompt Benefit.
1t Stops the Craving for Liquor, Does
Not lntoxicate or React or Pro.
duce a Habit of Its Own.

The medical journals have recently de-
voted considerable space to the question
whether q product of the sterculia nut
and a substitute for alcohol known as
Vino Kolafra is more effective in over
coming inebriety than the gold cure or
other so-called cures.
The claim set up for Vino Kolafra is
that it is very prompt to act. and makes
sober man out of the habitual drinker by
supplying the place of alcohol without
producing the toxic or reactive effects of
alcohol. In other words, Vino kolafra is
said to satisfy the craving for strong drink
and TO afford the longed for stimulus
without the customary sequence. Need
less to say, If this proves to be true its
importance can hardly be overstated. As
an example of the medical testimony
available on the point we may cite that
of DR.. J. d. Crowther, an expert in the
treatment of alcoholism. In report pub
lished in late number of the Journal
OF Inebriety DR.. Crowther says:
THE preparation called Vino Kolafra
has been used as an antidote for the poison
of alcohol and some authorities have
called it specific. We have made study
of its action in several cases of acute and
chronic inebriety. The plan was to dis
continue all spirits and give two or three
ounces of Vino koiafra every two or three
hours. Result: The acute symptoms
quickly subsidized. the patient became
easy, the stomach distress and the de-
maud for spirits also subsidized. In two
cases sleep followed. from which the pa
tent awoke rested. In two cases marked
change occurred in the restlessness and
excitement-the effects of alcohol seemed
to be neutralized and the condition of the
mind improved.
1.-The action of Vino Kolafra was that of
diffusabls stimuiant with tendency to
relieve the irritation and physical suffer
ing of such cases. There are many rea-
sons for believing that its greatest value is
in replacing spirits and in lessening the
effects of the withdrawal of drugs"
Professor Frank Woodbury. of Philadel-
phia calls a.teEtio in the Medical Bulle.
tin 10 q series of tests made with the
sphygmograph -a pulse-recording instru-
ment-showing the non-reactive charac-
ter of Vino Kolafra as compared with al
cohoiic stimulation.
Both the English and American Consuls
at every African port report that no harm
follows the use of the sterculia nut by the
natives, which statement has been amply
verified as to Vino Kolafra 1.-THE derivative
and representative OF the NUT by the ex-
periments OF the athletes of Yale and other
universities, by army experts and by the
superiutendents of the New York Post
office and of the Third-avenue Railroad,
New York.
The slim ulation OF Vino Kolafra is I'M
like that of any other known stimulant.
It produces sense of lightness and we'll
being, with no signs of intoxication or bad
after-sffects The respectable but steady,
everyday drinker, who has almost un-
consciously allowed the habit to grow
upon him until he is unable to shake it
off, is the man who is most helped and
prcfited by the use OF Vino Kolafra. He
changes from alcohol to the African tonic
without difficulty and with no regrets or
any sense OF relapse or falling away.
For chronic inyalids and constitutions.
ally feeble persons physicians now pre-
scribe Vino Kolafra in lieu of the danger
Gus drugs too long employed as tonics and
stimulants 1t steadies and regulates the
hearts action and deepens the breai hing.
AS brain stimulant Vino Kolafra causes
no congestion or excitement, while it
greatly increases the capacity for mental
labor