The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-16
WO~ULD'DRIYE OUT
DRINK BY HYPNOTISM
DR.. Quackcnbos Says More
Women Tmbibe, but Poor
Turn to Movies.
CIGARETTES 4 MENACE

WASHINGTON, Dec. lj.-Dr. John b.
Quackenbos, n professor emeritus Of CO.
lumbia University. who has been using
hypnotism in the practice of medicine for
years. toll the American Society for the
Study OF Alcohol and Other Narcotics
at its forty-nfth annual meeting to-
night that drinking among the well TO do
IL continually on the increase. but Is de-
~creasing among the poorer classes.
DR.. Quackenbos said that three times
the amount OF u national debt tabout
3d. 900. 900. 0O0) annually il spent in this
country on alcoholic drinks and tobacco.
The tobacco haCoit he maintained to he as
bad as the drink habit, said that the
Incorporate use of tobacco explains IS
per cent. Of all alcoholic cases.
The cure. as laid down by DIR. Quacken-
hos. IL a dynamic suggest!on-the victim
should no hypnotized. and while In this
state an appeal made TO his subcon-
scious mind. his subliminal self, his SUI
perior spiritual personality. Pluck. pull,
push. self reliance can thus be impaired
IN sufficient degree to keep tho sufferer
away from alcohol or tobacco for the
rest Of his life, he aid. out OF 1900
cases Of alcoholism which DIR. Quacken-
NJ SdSo ic "a hiiu W thio
at least so per cent. were saved.
The drink habit is growing, especially
| anon our women he old the gather
ing. from shop maids to the painpered
danes Of society. The punch bow fig
ures at functions cocktails high.
balls are everywhere on dress parade
Girls representing good families. con
~spicuously made up. are not missing,
Debutantes, not necessarily OF the fast
set. unblushingly assert n right to drink
7 wine and smoke cigarettes at luncheon,
and levees, at high priced cafes n In
the corridors Of hotels and not a few
of this ella Us. as well as young married
women. have been brought to my Office
in a state OF intoNication. Such has
| become the vogue.
The unobtrus!ve young lady of the
past generation Is giving place t.
a coarse, boisterous. ~immodestly attired
bon vivant. controlled by unworthy i'm
pulses n wholly UNFIT to fulfil her
function in the home as n character
former, a wife and "A mother.
with the great mass OF working
people in the cities the habit of drink
10 noticeabiy on the wane. and saloon.
keepers who have long absorbed a gen.
erous fraction OF the laborers' hard
earned wage fear for the future o.
their nefarious business. The movins
picture show Is "A great adversary o.
the saloon. A man may be entertained
there with his family an hour or tive
for less money h a he would spend ir
Tho card rooms that figure at the real
OF every bar.
"As a rule women who drink are NOR,
unreasonable h men. and moro sus
ceptible to he dictation OF alternating
phases.
THE real danger in smoking consist,
largely In the habit OF inhalation"
DR.. Quackenbos told OF the poisonI
In tobacco smoke. and said that tn,
worst Of all In furfuraldehyds. fount
In inferior alcoholic drinks. and sale
to be fifty times as poisonous as al
cohol. This occurs In the smoke o.
cheap cigarettes, he said, and, accordin,
to recent experiments. the smoke Of {
single Virginia cigarette IL likely I,
contain as much furfuraldehyde as tw,
ounces OF whiskey.