The herald., 1896-08-09
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 control or
satisfy. This morbid appetite frequently
has an inherited predispositton as con-
Sutuuonal cause, ana with Sucn the
hereditary vice is easily aroused to actiV-
ity and becomes an irresistible controlling
influence.
1t is not civilized mans natural dis
position tc relinquish all that serves 70
make life happy in order to satisfy ms
desire for drink. Such, however, is the
case with dipsomaniacs. The periodical
drunkard presents no such positive path
illogical changes, as he INDUCES but sell
dom, and allows the system time 10 re
cover by eliminating the poison before /;
has time to cause tissue injuries.
Although such men sometimes go to
terrible excuses, in some instances pro-
longing the debauch for several w weeks el
they either have great appetite and con,
sumo much food or else they depend
entirely on the liquor for aliment.
When quantities of food are ingested
it exercises Il protecting influence, keep
ing the gastric functions busy, neutrallz-
ing to large extent the poisonous effect
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
organs receive the full effects of the
stlmulant
Many persons in the prime of life per-
suade themselves that moderate use or
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 it 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 to sustain the abnor-
NAL standard created by the liquor. With
hope and all the finer emotions and sensi-
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 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 oplum
habit holds its thousands of victims in
degrading slavery. Since the introduce
tion of the hypodermc syringe the per-
nicious juice of the poppy has destroyed
myriads of human bodies and minds
among the farest 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.