The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02
SPECIAL NOTICES
CURING 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 or
satisfy. This morbid appetite frequently
has an inherited predisposition as con-
stitutional cause, and with such the
hereditary vice Is easily aroused TO actlv-
ity and becomes an irresistible controiiihs
influence.
1t Is not civilized mans natural DIS
position to- relnquish all that serves 20
make life happy Y order TO sa,isiy t ihhs
case with dipsomaniacs. The periodical
drunkard presents no. such positive pain
illogical changes, as he INDUCES put SCI
cover by eliminating the poison before Il
has time to cause tissue injuries.
Although such men sometimes go 70
terrible excuses, in some instances pro
longing the debauch for several weeks,
they either have great appetite and con,
sumo much food, or else they aepehu
entirely on the liquor for aliment.
When quantities of food are ingested
1t exercises q protecting influence, keep
ing the gastric functions busy, neuta sfat
of the liquor, and therefore tending 70
equalze the circulation. When the desire
for food is completes, suppressed by me
liquor, the system is left unprotected 10
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 moderate use OF
liquor taken regularly, even on an empty
stomach, will cause no detrimental re-
suits, as they experience no 1mmediate
disagreeable symptoms. Many Will even
claim that their. systems. demand the
stimulus and that marked Dement'S follow
its use.
No more fallacious or deceptive idea
1.xr l,nn
The system, it is true, becomes habitu-
ated TO the abuse as 1t does to the mar.
cotic poisons-opium, hashish, chlorai 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 to sustain the abnor-
NAL standard created by the liquor. With
hope and all the finer emotions and sensl-
bilities crushed, the victims OF me liquor
and shame to all connected with them;
No higher mission comes to the medlcal
man-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 its thousands of victims in
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-
tons, 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 truerl inferno
than that over which the great Italian
poet inscribed the terrible warning.
'Who enters here leaves hope behind"
CURING