The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-06-10
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cURINo CURES DRUNKENNESS!
CURING CURES MORPHINE HABIT!
CURING CURES TOBACCO HABIT!

Drunkards are cursed with 2 craving
gnawing appetite for alcoholic drink.
Which appetite they cannot control Of
has an inherited predisposition as a con-
Gfitutional cause, and with such Inc
hereditary vice is easily aroused 70 ac G,.. :
tty and becomes an Irresistible cohtro'hhs
Influence.
It is not civilized mans natural dis
position to, relinquish al that serves serve II, 10
make life happy in order to SATISFY MS
desire for drink. Such. however, IS inc
case with dipsomaniacs. The .periodiciaai
drnnkard presents no suen p9stsI biif sell
dom, and allows the system time 10 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
eptirely on the liquor for aliment,
when quantities of food are ingested
Il exercises protecting influence, Keep
Ing the gastric functions busy, neutraiiz-
liz to large extent the poisonous enect
OF the liquor, and therefore tending 70
eaualize the circulation. When the desire
Tor food is completely suppressed by the
l0uor, the system is left unprotected 10
the mercy of the alcohol and the nervous
organs receive the full effects of the
StimulR1t.
Many persons in the prime of life per
euade themselves that a moderate use or
liquor taken regularly, even on an empty
st9maeh win cause no detrimental l1e re
claim that their systems demand the
gtimulus and that marked benefits follow
tts use.
No more fallacious or deceptive idea
can be entertained by a healthy man.
The system, it is true, becomes habitu-
pefic poisons~opum, hashish, choral or
tobacco; but let such persons discontinue
Its use for any reason, and Tor 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
It's regular poison to sustain the abnor-
nal standard created by the llquor. Win
billties 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
ekill-than to find treatment that can
stay this torrent of misery that flows so
ralentlessly over its bed OF human
Even more than alcohol, the opium
naD1t nOluS us tnOuSdHuS OIL VlctiHlS Ill
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 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 warming:
"Who enters here leaves hope behind"
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