The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-07
Remarkable Changes in the
Constitution of Those Who
Have Been Treated.
HOW HORSES STAND ALCOHOL.
An Interesting Talk by DR.. D'Evelyn
on the Discovery Which BE Claims
Prevents Drunkenness.


sure of my conclusions and think the
medical profession should know what l
have discovered, and through the profess
sion the whole world would be benefited.
| have passed the enthusiastic stage and
can now show definite results that are
practical. While l have been studying
the subject for fifteen years l have not
reached the end yet, and there is wide
field for research in this direction. 1t is
logical that if physicians can take the
phthisicaI child, the child predisposed to
any hereditary disease, and treat it for the
purpose of helping it to withstand the
assaults of the disease we can a we'll take
a child predisposed to the drink habit and
lay the foundation for resistance.
while said nothing in my article
concerning what has been done SO far as
treating humanity, / did not reach my
conclusions until | had fully tested the
value of the discovery on mankind. From
examinations of human blood found in
disputable evidences of the peculiar
changes in the corpuscles that were to be
found III the horse after he had been sub
jected to the treatment with alcohol.
have treated several cases where men were
confirmed drinkers, and can say that the
success which attended the treatment
a case now where patent had been I'M
der treatment for some days when he
met with severe accident. He had been
a hard drinker Ior years, and his accident
was so serious that haC his system been
in the condition that is usually found
among such people he would not have
been able to Withstand the injury. AS 1t
is, he is getting along very well, and there
has been no increase of temperature, and
his constitution has so far recovered its
tone that he is rapidly recovering.
II am not prepared to give statistics yet
on cases, for you understand that people
do moi like TO have the notorlety of being
cited as such cases. | nave now under
treatment a most interesting family where
the children show distinctly all the effects
of parental influence from all inebriate
father. l was called to treat the father,
and when l saw the mother l said that
she was altogether OF different type and
told her that she was the balance wheel
in the family. Before | saw the children,
l told the mother that had it not been for
her strength there would have probably
been idiotic children. She said that her
oldest son was almost an idiot. These
children are now being treated to take
away the predispositlon to drink.
81 am confident, after seeing the bene-
fetal results of the use of the treatment,
that after a man has been fully treated he
Will not Only lose tue ueSIEe lOT K, DuI
that, should he feel inclined to take
glass of beer or wine or other intoxicant,
there will be no danger OF a relapse into
the old ways. The system is simply forti-
fed against the necessity for II, or rather
against the feeling OF need. You know,
men who work hard with their brain often
complain of brain fag. This simply
means that the cortex cells ire tired, and
need rest. But many men think they can
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stimulant. The result is that they take
the alcoholic stimulus when they should
give their brain rest. If there is any pre-
disposition through hereditary tendency
to drink this usually means rapid down
fall. and especially if the stimulation
takes place at about the fortieth year.
tine general results of this treatment
ill be nothing startling in the individual
cases, but if it is Systematically carried
out for generations there will be marked
return to what we may term normal con-
ditions. Take a child who is following a
cycle and there is little or no appreciate
change in the Individual. but there is
a new cycle started which would event
ualy bring out all entirely different con-
stitution. In the individual cases of ine-
briates there are. however, marked changes,
and l have stopped the stimulants off
short without the slightest inconvenience
to the patient. | could give you the name
of one very prominent man who had
reached the point OF deilrlum tremens.
He was restless and nervous and had not
slept for almost a week. He was being
dosed with narcotics, choral and the
bromides when found him and was in a
fair way to succumb. | ordered the i'm
mediate cessation of all medication and in
forty eight hours he was sleeping as
calmly as a baby. | stopped all stimu-
lants and looked entirely to general con-
ditions, and he not only recovered from
the Immediate effects of the liquor, but
began to grow f1eshy. He completely re-
covered from the attack, and was so forti-
fed against the habit that he had no
further desire for stimulants whatever.
II have studied the effects of alcoholic
slim lation in man for more than fifteen
years, and it would surprise you to see
how closely the horse seems to be allied
with humanity when under the influence
of alcohol. In my experiments l have
tried to use exactly the same specific gray
ity alcohol and have endeavored to have
ali the conditions exactly similar. Some
of the horses are nervous and get into
fighting moods. Others get humorous
and still others get morose. l have one
horse now under treatment who asks for
water as soon as he receives his morning
dram. He gets his alcohol and i'm
mediately sits down on his launches and
nuts his fore feet in the manger. Then
he wants drink of water. l find also
that hereditary traits in horses are IN
tensified in the progeny and had one mare
who was very nervous. Her colts were
more so and were more easily influenced
by the alcohol which l gave them. They
we're congenital inebriates.
In my Investigations l have found the
changed blood corpuscle most marked in
the children of gin drinkers. l have
taken the blood ofchildren and examined
it microscopcally and found that there
was more specific change than in their
parents. This has been especially notice
able in the children of the Chinese, who
drink large amounts of gin. These COR
puscIe changes are exactly what my in
uastioatinna led me to heliexe would be