The herald., 1896-06-18
SPECIAL NOTICES
CURING CURES DRUNKENNESS!
CURING CURES MORPHINE HABIT!
CURING CURES TOBACCO HABIT!

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Drunkards are cursed with craving,
gnaWing appetite for alcoholic drink.
which appetite they cannot control or
satisfy. This morbid appetite frequently
has an inherited predisposition as con
stitutional cause, and with Such the
hereditary vice is easily aroused to acllN-
ity and becomes an irresistible controlling
influence.
1t is not civilized mans natural dis
position to relinquish all that serves 70
make life happy in order to satlsfy ms
case with dipsomaniacs. The periodical
drunkard presents no such positive path-
illogical changes, as he indulges put SCI
dom, and allows the system time 10 re-
cover by eliminating the poison before u
has time to cause tissue injuries.
Although such mon 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
entirely on the liquor for aliment.
When quantities of food are ingested
it exercises protecting influence, keep
ing the gastric functions busy, neutrallz-
ing to a large extent the poisonous effect
of the liquor, and therefore tendlilg 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
stimulant.
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 benefits follow
its use.
No more fallacious or deceptive idea
can be entertained by a healthy man.
The system, it is true, becomes habitu-
ated to the abuse as 1t does to the mar
cotic poisons---opium, hashish, choral or
tobacco; but let such persons discontinue
its use for any reason. and for weeks
they must suffer with loss of appetite,
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
nlan-no greater credit can attach to his
skill-than to find a treatment that can
stay this torrent Of misery that flows SO
relentlessly over its bed of human
hearts,
Even more than alcohol, the opium
habit holds it's thousands of victims in
degrading slavery. Since the introduce
ton 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"