The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-03
INCUBATION FOR ALCOHOLISM.
New Cure for Inebriety Devised by
Californian.
Philadelphia Record.

'Equisine incubation for hereditary and
acquired alcoholism is the title of unique
and interesting set of experiments described
by the author, F. W. D'Evelyn, M. B. c. NJ,
of San Francisco, Cal, for the prevention
and cure of alcoholism, hereditary or ac-
CURED. Equisine, the remedy used, is made
from the blood of horses who have been
more or less saturated with alcohol OR have
become ripe" The ripe horses are bled in
ume of one-half per cent. of choral in ster-
iliZed vessels, and after twenty-four hours
in cold-air chamber it is thoroughly
shaken and decanted. The product is said to
contain all the essentials and elements of
the "alcocytic" blood, condition which
will be explained later
The author first undertakes to prove that
alcoholism is blood disease; that chill
dren of alcocytic or chronic inebriate faith
ers are born with their bolod SO charged
normal thirst for fluids, first bland and I'M
irritating in childhood, afterward to be
converted into an inordinate thirst for al
cohol and strong beverages. OF course,
due allowance must be made for the per-
sonal equation. AS alcohol affects one per-
son differently from another, so must the
it's mental or physical effect. One class
may develop in its offspring an obliquity
of character, q blighted responsibility,
which may end it as a vicious maniac or
vicious tendencies and lead nonaiceholic
who are never well. They become general
toneless, subnormal, mental and physical
perVertS who defy routine investigation and
are a mystery to themselves and a puzzle
to their physicians
There is no such thing as getting used to
1t. 1t is irrational and impossible to expect
an evolutionary adaptation of mankind to
alcohol. The baneful influences so unerring-
ly transmitted not alone mold the physical
life but sap, weaken and undermine the
tissue resistance against alcohol Alcohol
ism, the author states, is a blood disease, a
blood modification, a disease hereditary or
acquired, and a disease capable of trans
mission, and he Institutes a series of elab-
crate experiments to prove exactly what
changes are produced in the blood by alco-
holism. The results of these are too numer-
Gus and varied to reproduce here, but he
calls the modified blood corpuscle an al
cocyte and the blood of alcoholics alcocytic
blood. Alcohol breaks UP the haemoglobin,
which prevents oXygenation and increases
carbon dioxide. vicious combination which
toxication is established To remedy this
and other chemical and mcroScopcal
changes in the blood the eQuisne is used
and what vaccine has done for. smallpox
equisine will do for alcocytism and establish
a provocative integrity, producing a physi-
cal offspring in which the hereditary alco-
holic faint will be inert or unknown. Chemi-
cally pure bibulous paper is saturated with
the equisine baked in a hot-air chamber at
a regulated temperature. When cool it is
preserved in sterilized jars The arm or leg
ton; the paper is moistened with distilled
water and applied to the wound Twelve
hours later the plaque or paper is again
moistened and reapplied and allowed to re-
be repeated once a week for five or nine
consecutive weeks and should be again re-
peated every seven years. the patient re-
framing at the same time from all Seda-
tives, narcotics and stimulants. Altogether
the effect of this upon children has been
said to be remarkable in the redemption of
humanity from one Of the most prevalent
body and mind destroying diseases to which
mankind is heir,