The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-01-22
a. New Drink Cure.
Minneapolis Tribune

I A DR.. D'Evelyn, head physician at s.
Luke's hospital in San Francisco, claims
to have discovered new and effetti&t
cure for the liquor habit. It il lymnt
which is used to inoculate the patient
and thus destroy the taste for intoxicants
The treatment Is based upon the dis
covery of a new element in the blood
which the doctor calls "alcocytes." Th!l
germ exists only IN the blood of persons
addicted to drunkenness. After having
satisfied himself Of the existence of this
germ by various experiments through q
long term of practice, DR.. D'Dvelyn sci
to work to discover neutralized agent
that would destroy the al,ocytes and rem
der the blood impregnable against them.
This agent was finally found in the blood
of horse which had been dosed with alt
choholic liquors until he had become an
inebriate and displayed the symptoms of
deliriu n tremens. From the blood of q
horse thus he makes preparation called
"eo cuisine" with which the patient is lnoc-
ulated, on the same principle that ,aca',5S
are inoculated with the vaccine matter
from COW, as preventative against
small pox.
It is said that it takes from three to five
months for horse to acquire the liquor
habit, but once formed the animals how all
the prepensities of an 'old soak" When
he has been reduced to the proper condi
ton of inebriety and his blood is sufic
emily ''ripe," a quantity is drawn off and
the "equistine" is prepared by process
which the doctor at present holds as a SO
cret. In appearance it IS slightly sticky
reddish yellow fluid, and it is applied by
injecting it into the blood of the patient.
Another and what he considers better
means of efiecting ipoculation is to pre-
pare plaques from the equisine, which
are bound upon the arm of the patient
after spot had been duly scarifed. The
process oe incubation takes from eight
to ten weeks. according to the stubborn
ess Of the case. Every five or six days
new plaque is applied and the blood
testsd to demonstrate the conditions of
the alcecytes. When these disappear the
patient is supposed to be cured and the
appetite for intoxlcants destroyed. ,
As it is violation of the medical code
to keep any method of cure secret. DR..
D'Evelyn will, it is announced, as soon as
he has perfected his processes to his own
satisfaction, give them to the whole medi-
cal fraternity. A San Francisco paper
says that Father Crowley, president of the
Youths Directory, end Frank j. Kane,
secretary of the Society for the Proven
tion of Vice, have investigated the cure
and pronounced it success. Tests we're
made by plaqaing the boys born of in
temperate parents and who had. before
committal to the Youths DIRECTORY, de-
veloped taste for intoxicants. Six such
cases were tleated, and when it was found
that the desire for alcoholic stimulents
had been eradicated, the president and
secretary concluded to have the doctor
treat all the children committed to the
Rirectory and such others as came under
the observation of the society for the
suppression of vice. Both Father Grow
Icy and Mr.. Kane claim that the trelt-
ment has proven effective In every case
and that the boys plagued suffered De in
convenience. On the contrary, their gen.
eral health seemed to improve, from
which they, conclude that if the equistine
does no good In any particular case. it
certainly docs no harm.
It would appear that the advantage of
this treatment would be that it could be
performed on any patient at his own resi-
dence ana would not prevent him from
going about his ordinary avocation pro-
vided he possessed the strength of mind
to abstain from liquor while taking it.
When it is given to the medical profes-
sion ito use may become AZ general as the
Vaccine virus.