The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-04-20

One chilly autumn night 1 was called to see a
preacher whom | knew quite we'll, man OF middle
age and very popular in the town. He possessed
scholarly attachments and no one could question
his integrity from the standpoint of morals although
he known to be somewhat nervous in temper
ament and at times very vacilating in his moods.
On this particular occasion Reverend Goodman
claimed to be in the throes of hay fever seizure
and kept up constant wrhing, occasionally squeez-
ing his face between his hands Since the open
season for hay fever was already past, | could
think that this esthec malady was the true one
from which my gospel friend now suffered. Profit
ing by my observation OF the bone-racking symp
toms in number of drug cases, made bold to ask
few questions concerning what had begun to
surmse My patient at once confessed that he had
INDUCED mildly in narcotics for several years, but
that they now about to gain mastery over
him. He always procured his drugs from larger
town fifty miles distant, but his supply was sudden
ly exhausted, and fearing disclosures that might
possibly result from a purchase at the local drug
store, the calling of physician was an alternative
that seemed lesser evil
Strange Case of Clergyman
r. ROM this mans story it seemed that the dope
demon had fastened itself upon him in rather
unique manner. as he passed through a series OF
gradations from drug agency another and
under different Told briefly in his
words his experience something follows:
I'm my student days" said the ministerial man.
81 troubled with insomnia and melancholia and
when you can't sleep and have also a bad case of
blues coupled with it. know OF no worse COM
binaton. A doctor whom l consulted prescribed
pill which contained little opium. and also
casional dose OF choral hydrate night until had
re-estabshed the sleep habit. 1t worked dandy
continued the patient dropping his clerical Ian
guage and assuming heartto-heart demeanor. But
l soon found that learning to like the effects
of these things, although the doctor said to me-
you must cut it out did manage to get along \
few weeks without any nerve sedative or sleep coax
err but l had not forgotten their seductive effects
One day | with a little accident, sustaining
sprained ankle which quite painful for some
days. Another more conveniently located doctor
called in and gave morphine pellets to assuage
the pain. After had recovered from my injury
continued take occasionally pellet or two at
night and before realized it was amateur fend
"a point where l could take drugs let them
alone, so thought But knew that l had sufficient
will power to break away from them and made up
my mind very positively that would nip this minia
ture habit in the bud. And here is where l made
the mistake that has cost much; so
foolish go taking cure for the habit. The
alleged cures for many things aften worse than
the original complaints.
At the last statements l impelled to literally
sit up and take notice What the preacher contin-
ued tell evinced the fact that he evidently
knew more about spiritual and intangible things
than he did about materialisc things like drugs,
trums. 1t also proves what of it people some
times make when they misappy that little learning
which the poet has termed "a dangerous thing.
I'm order to myself thoroughly he added,
Il began taking "OPENS Specific, which guar
anteed eradicate any and all desire for drugs and