The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-11-03

| DT lHInDeTt > cure 10 lTO1H Tie
following formula:
Two parts of belladonna, which
. comes from the leaf of the deadly
herb, nightshade.
y" One part of fluid extract of
xanthoxylum, from bark of the
prickly ash shrub.
One part of hyoscyamus, from
the leaf of henbane, an herb.
| NEW YORK, Oct 29.-Dr. Alex
ander Lambert, Col. Roosevelt's ply
sician, has just announced to the med
ical fraternity that he has positively
cured scores of men and women af-
ficted with liquor, drug and cigarette
habits with a new cure, and he has
given the formula to the world.
DR.. Lamberts experiments were
made upon patients in the chamber of
horrors, the psychopathic ward of
Bellevue hospital.
DR.. Lambert says: II did not dis
cover the formula 1t was found by
gentleman who has travelled extensive
| ly in China, and he gave it to me to
experiment with. 1 have done so, and
have found that it will obliterate the
craving in ordinary cases within five
days. The formula has been published
, to the American Medical association"
Medicine Is Dangerous.
| DR.. Lambert gave the formula to the
reporter with the understanding that
| it should be made clear in this article
| that the medicine is dangerous unless
administered by a reputable physi-
clan.
1t was explained by the doctor that
the medicine cannot be used by the
patient himself because it causes COM
plications which may be serious, and
can only be prevented or handled by
a physician. ut any physician may
give the cure.
DR.. Lambert told of a mum Der of re-
markable cures. One of the worst
opium smokers in Chinatown was freed
of the habit. ''This Chinaman had
been an opium smoker for ten years.
Eighteen hours of the "a he smoked,
and his body was only yellow skin
stretching over rack of bones. When
the treatment was begun he was allow
ed to smoke all he pleased. After the
first day the pipe became distasteful
and after the third day it became in
tolerable. This Chinaman is now back
among his old companions and seems
to have no desire to smoke.
Girl a Drug Fiend.
There was a girl of 23 who, at 20,
was given morphine during a spell of
typhoid fever. To her friends it SEEM
ed almost a pity that the fever did
not carry her off, for she fell victim
to the drug. Her condition was so
serious that her friends did not dis
courage her from drinking whiskey
thinking she might forget the NOR
phne. But she only added another
terrible habit
"The psychopathic ward at Belle
vue, where thousands of drug and
liquor victims are created, sheltered
no sadder sight than this girl The
marks of the dope needle covered her
body.
But in II days, under the new
cure, this girl came forth whole and
in her right mind. The three years
are now only terrible dream to her."
From the doors of Bellevue those
who had been before only helpless,
hopeless riff-raff went out into the
world brave and strong again, their
burden of craving gone. Drunkards
were men again.
Begin Over Again.
Their characters were not chang
ed says DR.. Lambert. "They were
only beginning over again. If they
wished to return to liquor they might
do so. But, if they did, it would not
be as it was before, because the
nerves were crying for liquor, it
would be because they had deliberate
ly made up their minds to drink"
Some men did return to the hos
pital, drunk again, and were again
cured.
DR.. Lam bert made it clear that the
cure is ornament only when the
patient desires it to be. man cured
leaves a hospital with no craving for
drink, just as he started life. If,
however, he cultivates a craving, he
may again possess it and he will again
become a victim.
In the same way man might be
cured of typhoid and again expose
himself and again be cured.
There is reason, too, why alco-
holism is the most difficult to cure.
Cocaine, after long use, causes ONLY
distress and misery to the nerves thar
1t used to delight. Thus the cocaine
mend is glad to be cured. And more
over, the drug has caused no LESSONS:
the numbed brain may not have de-
teriorated. So there is great hone for
the cocaine user and he can help the
physician.
IL Is about the same with the victim
OF morphine.
May Have Weak Mind.
but the alcohol user may have lost
the use of the best part of his brain
Maybe there has gone from it that
very part which forms manly
thoughts and where ambition turks
Ihis can never be told until he has
the treatment. Then if he returns ia
MS liquor it is because his mind is
weak.
mere never was drug which
could cause man to be born again.
DR.. Lambert said
But there is hope in the fact that
there is time in every drunkard,s
career when he can be absolutely free
from the craving for liquor, saws the
doctor, and this is the new cure
Dr. Lambert said that the cigarett.