| Show redemption FOR inebriates TY is IB in some subjects an actual disease so to is the insatiable craving for opiates many a poor wreck of humanity who is loathed and condemned for habitual drunkenness is j really incapable of resisting the inordinate desire for drink and the N ame is true in regard to the victim ol of the opium morphine or cocaine habit some of these unfortunates inherit the appetite which destroys them and the feebleness of will that renders them incapable of don conquering it they are to be gre greatly atly pitied others have acquired the propensity to indulgence io stimulants or opiates and while still till to be pitied are to a large extent to be blamed but the hereditary week weak willed inebriate should be rather an oh object eject of compassion than of condemnation dem nation the habitual partaker of intoxicants who could but will not refrain from debasing himself when moral suasion and religious teaching have failed way may be left to his vice and his bis shame but the unfortunate inheritor of an ancestors infirmity or wickedness should be treated as one diseased and helped if possible to health and honor there have been many homes for inebriates and other institutions established to cure the drinking habit in 11 which some gome degree of success has been achieved but bat the only treatment we know of which has bus proven really efficacious and of lasting effect is the double chloride of gold remedy used and nd we believe discovered by dr leslie E F keeley of dwight illinois it IS may be thought that this is an advertising ver endorsement that would be a great mistake we do not know the doctor he does not ad vertile in this paper or in in any other so far as we know and we have had bad no dealings or oom communication munt of any kind with him or his institution but we have leir learned ned of in most oat remarkable cures acted by his treatment and we mention them as an a matter of public interest and of benefit to dipsomania dipsomaniacs cs we have been led to do this by the representations of a lady residing in this city who has personally witnessed the restoration to sobriety and respectability 0 of f a number of unfortunates who went to ta dwight in advanced of delirium the occasion of her ber sojourn there was the case of her own son who had become a helpless lave to the morphine and coco aine alne habit and whose body was covered with the marks of hypodermic punctures he was on the verge of softening of the brain and was one of the worst cases undertaken by the doctor it was therefore six weeks before he was thoroughly restored and fit to be entrusted with self command during that time this lady saw tottering inebriates come there and depart sound sober and full of gratitude with a supreme aversion instead of a craving for strong drink the medicine chiefly used is called the double chloride of gold and we understand can be obtained with full directions for use at home but the pa ilent has bas to furnish a complete of his cue case the better way to is to take the treatment under the physicians physician Is care we have seen accounts in several eastern journals of cures effected on inebriates written by the recovered patient pati enta some of them educated and talented physicians who bear the strongest and most grateful testimony to the doctors doctor 19 system and treatment this appears to be his only kind of advertisement verti the cue case of a young man in this city who how has been restored resto sed to respectability and usefulness though once a confirmed drunkard has appeared in the columns of the herald we add this testimonial for the sole purpose of showing that dipsomania to is really a disease and that it can be cured alij of thus giving comfort and hope to those afflicted creatures who are more to be pitied than censured some of the brightest minds in the land have been darkened and destroyed by drink and utah has not been without illustrations of this fact therease there Ther eare are men here now who but for the apparently unconquerable habit of intoxication would be ornaments to society and kindhearted kind hearted lovable useful members of the family circle yet are now disgraced and shunned and looked upon as past redemption if there is a chance tor for them and the remedy we have described appears to offer it would it hot be true charity to help them reach it the cure and reformation of hundreds of such unfortunates appears to be an established reality and it ought to be known wherever the demon of drink has found a victim |
