The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-01-25

ford, noted for his ingenuity in re-
lieving people of their money in a
Legitimate way, is not to be compar-
ed with these institutes that not only
rob one of ones money but ones
intellect as well.
personally know one Of these
institutes in an Eastern state that
paid one of their scientifically cur
ed patients and victims, money, from
time to time, for answering the in
quiries regarding his complete and
permanent cure, and that same
money, paid by the manager of that
institute to this unfortunate, went
over the bar and was swept in the
saloon cash register for the whisky
to satisfy his cravings.
None of these institutes have met
with success, except from financial
standpoint. To illustrate the base of
their treatments: The patient enters
the institute generally in semi-in-
toxicated cond til on, pays from
sevety-five to two hundred dollars
for the treatment, cash down. He
is assigned to room, given light
diet and when he begins to crave
thesliquor he is allowed three to six
ounces of whiskey, followed by an
hypodermic injection of apomorph-
inc which is one of the greatest and
quickest emetics known to the medi-
cal profession. and conscientious
physician will not use it only in an
extreme emergency, such as an anti
dote for a case of poison. The patient
becomes i'll at once and strychnine
is administered to stimulate his heart
action. He is given this treatment
at different intervals for ten days,
some times the apomorphine is plac-
ed in the whiskey instead of being adj
ministered hypodermically, but its
physiological action is the same. The
man naturally soon begins to dislike
the smell, taste and sight of whisky
and is soon discharged from the in
stitute as cured, and the manager in
his private Office will invite him to
have just one social glass of whisky
before departing for his home. Nat
urally the man refuses it after this
treatment and he is under the i'm
preston that he is enterly cured,
but in few days after the weakness
caused by the drug treatment dis
appears, the same old craving for
liquor returns. His case, in way,
comedies with the small boy who be-
came i'll from eating too many green
apples, and while in this condition,
loathed the thought, or sight of an
apple, but in few days we find him
back in the orchard shining up the
tree again.
Why, these victims are not only
robbed of their money. but in return
they find their constitution under
mind, their mental faculties impair
ed, their cravings for liquor unsatis-
fed and this generally terminates in
the periodical deliruim. which. in
only short time, dashes them over
the cataract of inbriety, into the
whirlpool Of hopeless insanity.
While ser ingan interneship in
an eastern hospital for the insane, /
investigated the records and medical
histories of the various patients suff-
ering from alcoholic manias and /
found that the records showed that
fifty-two per cent. or one hundred
seventeen patients, out of the two
hundred and twenty-five in this hos
pital, had at one time or another
taken various drug treatments for
the liquor habit.
In conclusion, as these various
liquor cure treatments are dangerous
and injurious, 10th physically and
mentally. what, then is the most ra-
tional tre atment for drunkenness?
Medical men know, or should know,
that persons suffering from mild
mental disorders. (of which inebriety
is one) that have been isolated in
state hospitals for the insane, placed
under treatment and sedatives and
narcotics, such as the bromides,
morphine hyocincbloral, ETC., which
have been administered to quiet the
nerves; that these drugs have been
responsible for the lowering of re-
sistance to disease, and thus in many
cases producing general collapse,