The herald., 1896-07-10
SPECIAL NOTICES
CURING CURES DRUNKENNESS!
CURING CURES MORPHINE HABIT!
CURING CURES TOBACCO HABIT!


Drunkards are cursed with a craving,
gnawing appetite for alcoholic drink.
which appetite they cannot controI or .r
satisfy. This morbid appetite frequently
has an inherited predisposition as a con-
Stitutional cause, and with such ine
hereditary vice is easily aroused 10 actlV-
ity and becomes an Irresistible controllihs
influence.
1t is not civilized mans natural dis
position to relinquish all that serves 70
esre aks 5s fds drne dhappy g sue oFdeh
case with dipsomaniacs. Ihe perioui..ihii "a !
drunkard presents no such positive PAIN
illogical changes as he t,1 indniseis siime % TO 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 uepeHu
entirely on the liquor for aliment.
When quantities of food are ingested
1t exercises protecting influence, Keep
ing the gastric functions busy, neutrallz-
ing to large extent the poisonous eHect
Of the liquor, and therefore tendlnS 70
equalize the circulation. When the uesire
for food is completely suppressed oy tne
liquor, the system is left unprotected 70
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 1mmedlate
disagreeable symptoms. Many VIII even
claim that their systems demand tne
stimulus and that marked benefits toilow
its use.
No more fallacious or deceptive idea
ha n tpr
The system, it is true, becomes hapllu-
ated to the abuse as 1t does TO the mar
tobacco; but let such persons discontinue
its use for any reason. and lor Weeks
they must suffer with loss or appetite
fever, pains or palpitation, with perhaps
constipation and nervous irritability ana
loss of flesh.
The system has in such cases from
long abuse become changed and demands
its regular poison to sustain the aonor-
NAL standard created by the liquor. with
hope and all the finer emotions ana sensl-
bilities crushed, the victims OF the lquor
habit are only capable of causing tears
and shame to all connected with them
No higher mission comes TO the meolcai
man-no greater credit can attach 10 ms
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
tion of the hypodermic syringe the per-
nicous 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"