The herald., 1896-01-17
CURINO CURES DRUNKENNESS!
CURING CURES MORPHINE HABIT!
CURING CURES TOBACCO HABITI

Drunkards are cursed with n craving, gnawing
appetite for alcoholic drink, which appetite they
frequently has an inherited predisposition as 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
linquish ell that serves to make life happy in order
to satisfy his desire for drink Such however is
the case with dipsomaniacs The periodical drunk
ara presents no such positive pathological changes
as he INDUCES but seldom. and allows the system
time to recover by eliminating the poison before it
has time to cause tissue injuries.
Although such men sometimes go 80 terrible ey-
cesses, in some instances prolonging the debauch
for several weeks, they either have great appe-
t.te and consume much food, or else they depend
entirely on the liquor for aliment.
When quantities of food ingested, IL exer-
cises a protecting influence, keeping the gastric
functions busy, neutralizing to large extent the
poisonous effect of the liquor and therefore tend
ing to equaize the circulation When the desire
for food is completely suppressed by the liquor
the system IS lett 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 persuade
themselves that a moderate use of LIQUOR taken
regularly even on an empty stomach will cause
no detrimental results as they experience no inn
claim that their systems demand the stimulus and
that marked benefits follow its use.
No more fallacious or deceptive idea can be
tertained by healthy man. The system, il is
true, becomes habituated to the abuse it does to
the narcotic poisons-opium, haschish, chloral
tobacco; but let such persons discontinue its uso
for any reason, and for weeks they must suffer
with loss of appetite fever, palms. palpitGtion,
and loss of flesh.
The system in such cases has from long abus,
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 lhe liquor
habit arc 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 treatment that
can stay this torrent of misery that flows so re-
lentlessly over its bed Of human hears"
Even more than alcohol, the opium habit holds
It's thousands of victims in degrading slavery.
Since the Introduction of the hypodermic syringe
the pernicous juice of the poppy has destroyed
myriads of human bodies and minds among the
fairest and brightest women and most intellectual
OF men. The medical profession with occasional
exceptions too apathetc with respect to this
haunting vice.
They are too often open to n Graver charge than
apathv-they have been instrumental in teaching
thousands the to the worse (bccausc truer) in
ferno than that over which the great Italian poet
inscribed the terrible warning: "Who enters here
leaves hope behind.
CURING