Show NOVEL OVEL LIQUOR QU After experiments with liquor addicts over a period of four years Drs and Lemere of Seat Seat- Seattle Seattle Seattle tle report in the periodical rN West West- Western est est- estern ern Medicine a new method for curing curing- thc drink habit Their tech technique embraces a combination ol of drugs and psychology The patient is placed before a table on which are bottles of whis whis- whisky whisky ky which he is told lold will make him sick He is then given an injection of a drug dru which will cause nausea and a right moment is given a drink of liquor He becomes acutely sick but is urged to take several more drinks This trea ment is repeated daily for about a a. week after which the patient is liable to nausea every aime he sees smells or tastes liquor Of 38 persons given the treat treat- treatment treatment ment 97 per cent remained total abstainers for more than six months and about two were still on the wagon after nearly four years Some curious facts were noted in the course of the experiments one being that women were harder barder to cure permanently than men and another was that better results were obtained with older men Persons Person under 28 23 years' years of age not benefited by the treatment according to the doctors One patient was so greatly af af- affected af- af affected that after taking the course he was unable to even look t tat the picture of a whiskey bottle tn fn n an an n I without with ut be becoming m g nauseated The success succesS' of the treatment de de- depends depends depends on the making the patient imagine that it is the whisky that makes him sick although he knows better After 29 years a nickel was sent to a Denver drug dru store to pay for fora a stamp that was credited |