The herald., 1896-01-23
CURINO CURES DRUNKENNESS!
CURING CURES MORPHINE HABIT
CURING CURES TOBACCO HABIT!

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 a
constitutional cause, and with such the hereditary
vice Is easily aroused to activity and becomes an
irresistible controlling influence.
1t is not civilized mans natural disposition to
inluish all that serves to make life happy in order
TO satisfy his desire for drink Such however, is
the case with dipsomanacs. The periodical drunk
ard presents no such positive pathological changes,
as he indulges but seldom. and allows the system
time to recover by eliminating the poison before it
mas time to cause tissue injuries.
Although such men sometimes go 70 terrible
cesses, IN some instances prolongng The debauch
ior several weeks, they either have great appe-
entirely on the liquor for aliment.
,When quantities of food ingested, il cXer-
cises protecting influence Keeping the gastric
functions busy neutralizing to a large extent the
poisonous effect of the liquor and therefore Tend
ing to equalize the circulation. When the desire
ior food Is completely suppressed by the liquor,
the system is left unprotected the mercy of the
ALCOHOL and the nervous organs receive the full
efectS OF the Stimulant.
Many, persons in the prime OF life persuade
themselves that moderate of liquor taken
regularly, even on an empty stomach, will cause
no detrimental results, as they experience no i'm
mediate dsagreeable 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 en-
tertalned by healthy man. The system, ii is
true, becomes habtuated to the abuse as it does to
the narcotc posons-opinm haschish, chloral or
sooacco' nut let such persons discontinue Its use
with loss of appetite, fever pains or palpitaton,
with perhaps constipation and nervous irrltability
and loss of flesh.
The system in such cases has from long abuss
become changed and demands its regular poison
to sustain the abnormal standard created by the
liquor; With hope and all the finer emotions and
sensibilities crushed, the victims OF ihe 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 mis- skill-than to find n treatment that
can stay this torrent of misery that flows
-entlessly over its bed of human hearts
Even more than alcohol, the opium habit holds
its thousands of victims in degrading slavery.
Since the Introduction of the hypodermc syringe
the pernicious Juice of the poppy has destroyed
myrlads of human bodies and minds among the
farest and brightest women and most Intellectual
OF men. The medical profession, with occasional
exceptions, are too apathetic with respect to this
haunting vice.
They are too often open to n Graver charge than
apathy-they have been instrumental in teaching
thousands the way to the worse (becauSe truer) in
ferno than that over which the great Italian poet
inscribed the terrible warning: "Who enters here
leaves hope behind