Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-16

Avoid Every Drink Cure" Not Given by
Your Doctor.
The lunatic, the lover and the poet
are of imagination all compact. Per-
haps the bard consciously omitted
the wine- bibber, half-seas over, from
this motely definition.
THAT men should put an enemy IN
their mouths to steal their Drains
awav is a strange thing. Ihat they
should with joy transform themselves
into beasts, is, indeed, silly.
But since they do so indulge ia
rotations, physicians needs must
ind means whereby the spree ois-
ease" as it has been called, can DE
once for all uprooted. There nave
been various ways and means OIL one
sort and another to prlng apouS {.
cure of the drink habit, but nearly
ali have ultimately led on to a HOOD
of nnisfortunes nearly equal to those
of alcoholism. ,a
In This regard allow me. beloved
reader. to raise a stentorian, mega
nhonic voice from the meolcai VIII
darness against those dangerous, YET
successful. devices of quack cures
for drunkenness, which tell you That
Mrs. Blancx, who successfully cured
her husband of intoXlcatlon, VIII
furnish YOU free of charge the name
of the remedy she fond so ertecIlVe'
Cures Often Dangerous.
This trick Is a triumphant dlscoV-
erv whereby battalionS OF women anu
g,illible friends of the inebrlates pour
shekels into the Golfers OF lnsiolous
and hidden hands. .i,
No "cure" should be taken untli
after it has been carefully lnVeslieaes-
ed and has received your phSsician
sanction. - .to+ ohio
lido Of god in minute drop doses VIII
hr,ng about an elimination OF the al
cohoItc craving. All such alleged
"ooldi, cures do not stand the test OF
honest Judgment and unprecedented IN
Sim1Iarly it may be said with en-
nbasls there turks an ever threaten
inp danger in the administrator Vi
hvoscine, scopalamine and morphine
as means whereby the sweet poison
of misused WINE can be crusheo Aroi
| the bacchanalian rlps.
mo roorphine habit is a bitter price
to pay for the lesser venom Oh wis
~ vine and beer. The latter can
not he considered the main plague
and common dotage of the besotteo
| ones once the morphine habit ap'
|
pears. a ,,rr.
Not alone temporary alterations
hut even permanent insanitles, arls'
no less from the use of hyoscine thar
from bibping alcohol excessively. M
one should permit this drug to b'
rsed in an attempt to stop the grog
shop and internal liquor bathini
habits.
The proper place for the treatmen
of drunkenness is the hospital IN
rarity of Kidding, Bacchus of his weak
ness in a private house makes II
first principle to persuade the human
/ sponge to submit to week or NOR
in some hospital equipped for Till
treatment.
The victim is put to bed, caused t.
| sleep for two OF three days with brie
waking intervals for rich, heavy beef
| steaks He is given minute doses o
belladonna by an alert house doctor
appropriate doses of digitalis ant
some nauseating drug such as ipecac
mustard or castor oil is placed in thu
| LIQUOR he is accustomed to drink.
Belladonna in very minute dose
has been known to produce sleep il
the most violent nervous drunkart
within twenty minutes. 1t als'
creates an aversion to aicohol. Since
however, this and the other drugs ar
| violent posons, only those skilled II
| their use dare apply them.