The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-02-17
SILVER-PLATED THROAT
IN A COURT CLINIC $50 CIGAR
ETTE FIENDS THUS TREATED.
Patients Leave Recorder After W..
man Tells Horrors. What 'COf-
fin NaiI' Contains Described.

Tin NaiI' Contains Described.
NEW YORK.-So crowded w
Recorder McGovern's court room IN
Hoboken, N. j., last night that Dr.
Jos. F. Landrigan and DR.. Michael S.
Granelli, medical inspectors in the
Hoboken schools, had scant elbow
room as they worked at silver plat
ing $50 human throats. That's the
number of men and boys who appear
ed last night to take the recorders
famous silver anti-cigarette treat
ment. Last night was the fourth
weekly "anti-cigarette clinic.''
Anti-nicotine fans from New York
and other nearby cities were there to
see how it is done. The doorway
was a sea of faces. The only reason
no S. R. o. sign was hung is because
they don't use S. r. o. signs in court
rooms.
Though the recorders purpose was
to treat boys and very young men
half the $50 last night were grown
ups. More might have been besilver-
ed but the two doctors, exhausted
and perspiring, used the last of their
cotton swabs and the final drop of
their one-fourth Of one per cent nj
trate of silver solution, and an
nounced they were through.
Heard Cigarettes Exposed.
The gallant $50 were still hand
ling their threats and chucking their
tongues when Mrs. Jennie Hobson
Milligan, superintendent of the New
York Anti-Cigarette League, made
speech. Those who had imagined all
coffin tacks contained was tobacco
nearly fell over when they learned
from Mrs. Milligan that they also
harbor carbon monoxide, arolein,
pyridine and furol-or words to thai
general effect.
Zone cigarette is more harmful
than two ounces of crude whiskey, "
she said. Lying and stealing, which
go hand in hand, are among the first
habits that a cigarette smoking boy
acquires.
eff you would live to be more than
thirty years old don't smoke ciga-
rettes. Don't make chimneys out of
your mouths. Statistics show that
the average life of the cigarette
smoker is thirty years."
SiIver-Plated Her Son.
Mrs. VIM. Stokely, of No. 25 Clin-
ton street, stylishly gowned, brought
her 15-year-old son to court. When
he left he had a silver throat, too,
and clutched q prescription which
calls for a mixture containing gen
tian root. This preparation goes
hand in hand with the silver as a
remedy for the cigarette habit.
Asked by a reporter if the nitrate
OF silver treatment is an absolute
preventive of cigarette smoking Dr..
Granelli said:
1T does not absolutely kill the
taste for cigarettes. 1t makes them
much less pleasant to tho palate. The
treatment, of course, should be COM
bined with will power and should
last two or three weeks to give the
best results.
1.-The simple operation of having
ones throat swabbed with the silver
preparation IS not sufficient to guar
antee the disappearance % all craV-
ing for cigarettes"
The recorder said he had received
during four weeks letters from every
state, from all conditions and classes
of persons, inquiring about the silver
cure and congratulating him upon
his method of applying it.
Meanwhile the Hoboken court
room is fast becoming too small to
accommodate patients and spectators
at "anti-cigarette Clinics"