The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-12
AN ANTID0TE
TO ALCOHOL
Excessive Drinkers Now Using Vino
KOIafra with Great and
Prompt Benefit.
1t Stops the Craving for Liquor, Does
Not Intoxicate or React or Pro-
duce Habit of Its Own.

The medical journals have recently
devoted considerable space to the
question whether d product of the
sterculia nut and a substitute for al
coh0l known as Vino Kolafra is more
effective in overcoming inebriety than
the gold cure or other sO-c2lled cures.
The claim set up for Vino Kolafra is
that it is very prompt to act and
makes a sober man out of the habitual
drinker by supplying the place of al
cohol 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. Needless to
say if this proves TO be true its i'm
portance 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 published in a late number of
the Journal of Inebriety DR.. Crowther
says:
THE preparation called Vino Kol-
afra has been used as an antidote for
the poison of alcohol and some au-
thorities have called it a specific. We
have made a study of its action in sew
eral cases Of acute and chronic inebri-
ETY.. The plan was TO discontinue all
of Vino kolafra every two or three
hours. Result: The acute symptoms
quickly subsidized. the patient became
easy the stomach distress and the de-
mand Tor spirits also subsidized In two
cases sleep followed, from which the
patient woke rested. In two cases a
marked change occurred in the rest
lessness and eXcitement-the effects of
alcOho seemed to be neutraliZed and
The condition OF the mind improved.
THE action of Vino Kolafra was that
Of i difiusable stimulant with ten
dency to relieve the irritation and ply
steal suffering of such cases. There
are many reasons for believing that its
greatest value is in replacing spirits
and in lessening the effects of the with
drawal of drugs"
Professor Frank Woodbury. of Phila-
delphia calls attention in the Medical
Bulletin to a series of tests made with
the sphygmograph-a pulse-recordinS
MISUNDERSTANDING the non-reactiVe
character of Vino Kolafra as compared
with alcoholic stimulation.
Both the English and American con-
suls at every African port report that
TO harm follows the use of the ster-
culia nut by the natives which state
ment has been amply verified as TO
Vino Kolafra Cthe derivative and rep
resentative of the nut by the expert
ments Of the athletes of Yale and other
universities. by army experts and by
the suDerintendents of the New York
postoffice and the Third avenue rail
road. New York.
The stimulation of Vino Kolafra is
unlike that of anv other known slim
ulant. 1t produces a sense of lightness
and wen being. with no signs of in
/ toxication or bad after-effects. The
/ respectable. but steady, everyday
drinker. who has almost unconsciously
allowed the habit to grow upon him IN
til he is unable 10 shake it off, is the
man who is most helped and profited
/ by the use of Vino kolafra. He
I changes from alcohol to the African
/ tonic without difficulty and with no re-
I grets or any sense of relapse or falling
away.
FOR chronic invalids and constitu-
I tionally feeble persons physicians now
! prescribe Vino Kolafra in lieu of the
dangerous drugs too long employed as
/ tonics and stimulants. 1t steadies and
regulates the hearts action and deep
ems the breathing. AS q brain stimu-
/ liant Vino Kolafra causes no conges-
/ ton or excitement, while it greatly
/ Increases the capacity for mental la
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