The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-01-07
And Science Keeps Up With
the Procession.
SOME FACTS AND FIGURES
You Can Cure But You Cant
Suppress Tnebriety.
SCIENCE DISCOVERIES THE.CURE
And Quarter of a Million Redeemed
Inebriats Attest It's Efficacy
States and Cities Becoming In
terested in the Wonder.
full Treatment.
full treatment.

full Treatment.
Greensboro, NC, Jan 6-(Staa Cores
pondence. you can cure it shut you
can't suppress it,
This was the remark heard one gen
tleman make to a crowd Of gentlemen
few days ago.
Cure whatY l inquired, having
heard the first OF the discussion.
Cure disease" he replied Science
can do this, and science has never been
30 busy as during the past quarter Of
century, and in no respect has science
been so successful both in the discovery
and in the application of specifics"
1T seems to be an age" he continued,
when the ordinary ills of mankind are
yielding more than ever to the methods
OF science, both old and new.
but does this apply to all diseases?
| asked.
ITO nearly or quite all of them. or
course, there are hereditary troubles that
sometimes seem to be a part =of the origi-
nal makeup Of men for which we can
yet claim absolute specifics but even
these are in measure beiag controlled
by climatic or other influences.
But to what particular disease We're
you first referring when You remarked
that it could be cured, bat not sup
pressed?" / asked.
'Inebriety," he replied. Drunk, drunk
enness or whatever else it may be termed,
humanity's greatest despoiler and de-
stroyer."
40 you think that is liseaseY'
mo, I don't think it; | know it, /"
But you viii find a good many, very
eminent people who will differ with you.
They win claim that it is q habit, or vice,
or a weakness and not disease
ooh, yes, but majority OF these you
will find among those who have never
had it, ] know it is a disease, because |
had it; / know that it can't be suppressed,
because my people and MY friends tried
for years to suppress it with me, but
know that it can lie cured FOR | had 1t
cured. Six years ago | was cured and
/ haven't had a symptom OF It since,
therefore. l say, and / say it adYisedly,
that it it is disease and can be cured
and not habit or vice or weakness, ply
sicial, or moral, that can be suppressed.
CONTINUOUS setting on the bank Of
creek fishing might properly be called
habit but If in doing so you contract
malarial fever you woulG hardly call the
fever q habit"
ITO insist on nursing q friend through n
spell OF yellow fever by some would be
called brave act, by otAers weakness,
but il you contracted the fever you would
call it disease.
Continuous and persistent drinking or
H. - ns lfhnr Ylar rfkfia1
may be properly termed habits and bad
habits, even vice, you please, but the
effect is disease terrible, mind destroy
ing, brain destroying and strength de-
stroying disease, and it must be treated
with a specific, or else while you may APP
pease it for a while, It will break out
again, and, ike other diseases, the re-
lapse will generally be worse than the
first attack"
And do you believe that science has
discoye erred a real specific for inebriety p
II know it has; / know it as / told you
from personal experience. Indeed it
claims to have discovered several speei-
fes for this and kindred troubles"
81 have had experience with but one;
that in my case and in more than thou
sand other cases that ]; know proved sue
cessful"
'sAnd what specific is thatg'
1.-THE double bi-chlorIde OF gold treat
ment."
"But some say that d double bi-chloride
Of gold is a chemical fmpossibility."
"Oh, yes, so was the X Ray, both
scientific and mechanical impossibility
for thousands OF years, but you would
hardly say that it w&s an impossibility
now"
"To dip man with: typhoid fever into
tub OF ice water ana not kill him was
an impossibility years ago, but it is
specific now"
From a theoreticaE standpoint, double
bi-chloride Of gold may be impossible, but
from a practical standpoint double BIZ
chloride OF gold is not only g possibility
but positive, powerful force at work
almost all over the world and producing
probably a greater percentage OF per-
manent cures than any specific that has
ever been discovered"
'sTske the Keely Institute In this
town." he remarked with over twelve
hundred permanently cured naen aa Its
heritage in North Carolina Naaae one
hospital or an infiruaary ss any institution
that can show such a percentage OF sue
eessful treatment.
wonderful Worx we must confess Tor
chemical iInpossi5ility TO be accom-
plixhing."
"And there are other treatments besides
this / inquired.
''Oh yes, several, 5ndeed the treatment
of inebriety by scientific methods ia get
ting to be almost universal"
ooh yes, there was some prejudice at
first--a wall of it you might say, but it
has crumbled in the heat OF burning
facts, and now science itself is about
contented. Men and organizations and
religious and temperance societies and
charitable Institutions, even States and
counties aud cities are waking up to the
fact that it is easier and better to cure
than to try to suppress this great evil
SIN what general way is this being
doneT
.Why, sir, 1t may surprise you. and
it may be news fo1$ the public, but to-day
q majority Of the States Of this country
ssso sa,.;o,ysIv fnr isl ring fhn ct4oefiov, ~