A POPULAR TREATISE 
 
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 Drunlcenness 
 
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 Opium HaWt 
 
 AND THEIR SUCCESSFUL 
 TREATMENT 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 55ouble (gloFide of Qold 
 
 THE ONLY CURE 
 
 Lakehurst Sanitarium 
 
 OAKVILLE 
 
 
 Toronto Officm: 
 Room 35, Bank op Commercc Builoinq, 
 
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Introduction 
 
 THIS treatise is written for thii\kiii<^* men- 
 men v'iio enjov tlie deiig'ht of lo<^"ieal 
 proof and the beatitudes of their reasoii. 
 We have not written for men who be- 
 lieve that a tumor of the brain is a result of sin, 
 that insanity is a crime against tlieg'ods, andtliat 
 Drunkenness is simply a social vice which a man 
 can overcome bv force of will. 
 
 Drunkenness is more prevalent this year and 
 dav than it ever was in anv other vear or dav 
 It is as rational from a medical point of view, to 
 treat Drunkenness by expostulation, pledg'e- 
 sig'ning, reproaches and legislation, as it formerly 
 was to treat insanitv^ bv incantations, ;ind the 
 laving" on of hands. A fair enumeration of the 
 signatures of total abstinence pledges, and of the 
 succeeding' relapses into drunken Ava^^s, has 
 always shown a model balance sheet. The tears, 
 the ag'ony, the starvation, the social misery of the 
 drunkard's family ; the insanity, mental im- 
 becility and criminality of his progeny, as well as 
 the overflowing penitentiaries, jails, and poor- 
 houses, and the millions of headless, dishonored 
 drunkard's graves are all powerless — hRvG 
 always been powerless— to cure the disease of 
 Drunkenness. 
 
 In the middle ages the intellect of humanity was 
 obscured by the gross ignorance wiiich tiien pre- 
 vailed. There were but few avenues in life open 
 to the man of genius and ability. Painting and 
 
 sculpture were regarded b}^ the grc^at masses as 
 
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master-callings, and lie who would win fame and 
 renown must seek it in the chiselled marble or 
 frescoed wall. Chemistry was given over to 
 charlatans and impostors, while the noble science 
 of medicine was neglected and despised. 
 War and diplomacy held out attractions 
 which were eagerly sought by some, but the 
 higher forms of intellectuality, and the nobler 
 schools of thought, reaching out and beyond the 
 teachings of previous ages, were alike unknown 
 nnd uncared for. Hidden secrets remained 
 hidden ; undiscovered treasure lay all untouched 
 in its resting place, and the race plodded on in 
 the worn groove of the centuries, groping its way 
 slowly and painfully towards the light of reason 
 and knowledge. Alcoholism, advantaged by this 
 •deplorablecondition of affairs, held high carnival, 
 and fastening its terrible fangs upon the human 
 family with remorseless grip, left its fearful im- 
 press in the taint which has passed down through 
 the ages to the present time. 
 
 But at length '' the grim belt of the middle 
 ages " yielded to the bright ray of surer light 
 and more certain truth, which in three great dis- 
 coveries, broke through the midnight pall and 
 brought intellectual daylight to a benighted 
 world. Gunpowder dispelled the chivalric senti- 
 ment of feudal times, and the horseman panoplied 
 in coat of mail, whi^ had been counted the peer 
 of a hundred spears in battle, was left without a 
 place in war, the pigmy equalling the giant. 
 
 During these long ages the art of writing was 
 known only to a few, those in high places deeming 
 it unmanly and effeminate to learn how to read 
 or write. The monks and scribes were the only 
 
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])onmen, and books wer(^ almost ])ricoloss treas- 
 ures, fMid handud down as h(!irlooms. General 
 knowledg'e, at best of a limited character, was 
 stored a^^'ay in archives, and seen oidy by a i)riv- 
 ileged lew. The printing' press folded the litth^ 
 types to its bosom, and g'ave to the world a new 
 impetus which has surg'ed onward throug'h the 
 centuries, diffusing informatioii, enlij^'htening 
 dark minds, and civilizing' people of the liabitabie 
 g'lobc. 
 
 The different nations of the earth knew little of 
 each other; theg'reat ocean had never l)een tra- 
 versed, and mariners were afraid to venture 
 from the well-known tracks of their predecessors. 
 Astronomy taught them latitudes and long'titudes 
 wiiiie its twin sister, navig*ation, followed in the 
 wake of astronomical revelations, pushed out 
 upon the great ocean of A^•aters, till the anxious 
 sailor gazed upon a new ^\'orld, and in America 
 found the home for Europe's over-burdened 
 people, and opened up the grandest continent 
 upon which God's sun has ever shone. 
 
 It was thus that science took the place of super 
 stition, reason of blinded judgment, and the race 
 g'radually grew out of the chrysalis con<lition, 
 until it gained the wings of knowledge, and 
 soared to heights of intellectuality of which tlie 
 human mind had never dreamt or conceived. As 
 then, so now, science comes to us with her won- 
 derful power, and teaches us that through her 
 agency, the hereditary taint of drunkenne«'^ can 
 be taken away. To the drunkard in his degra- 
 dation, there comes a new revelation of joy. and 
 hereafter to him the magic ring of the word 
 *' Gold "will have a double meaning, .for it will 
 
lead him from danger and despair to safety and 
 hope, and place him on the golden way to pros- 
 perity and pef^ce. 
 
 ALCOHOLISM, OR DRUNKENNESS. 
 
 Alcholism, or Drunkenness, viewed from its 
 physiological side is a disease ; viewed from its 
 social side it is generally estimated as a vice. 
 Tnsanitv was once believed to be a vice, or a sin 
 against the gods, and the miserable unfortunates, 
 who were believed to be possessed by a Demon, 
 were, by way of Divine vengeance, simply pun- 
 ished for a disease of the nervous system. 
 
 The brains of sane men and sober men are so 
 greatly differentiated in their development that, 
 since the middle ages, scientists begin to look on 
 many of the moral vices as having a physical 
 basis in diseased functions or structure of the 
 nervous system. Insanity is now, and has been 
 for many years, regarded as being dependent 
 upon changed nerve tissues and functions— fully 
 as much as paralysis, and equally with the latter 
 disease is referred to the domain of the physician 
 for cure. If it were not for the ignorance of the 
 general public, (who formerly maltreated the 
 insane) but, now, rightly estimate Drunken- 
 ness a disease, the viciousness in this case 
 would, in accordance with the science of social 
 morals, be acknowledged as on the side opposite 
 to that occupied by the insane and drunkards. 
 
 The science of nerve physiology and patho- 
 logy has now so far advanced that in the minds 
 of thinking men, Alcoholism, like insanity, is veri- 
 fied as dependent upon a diseased condition of 
 the nervous system. Drunkenness, then, 
 
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although a cause, so far as its evil results extend, 
 of social evils in the community, is one of the 
 results of physical disease. People, therefore, 
 err in their estimate of the relation of Drunken- 
 ness to social degradation in its moral, physical 
 and financial aspects. The primary cause of 
 these social evils is a nervous disease, and 
 drunkenness is as much an effect as is the poverty, 
 absence of morality, and general degradation 
 with which Drunkenness is alwavs associated. 
 
 THE PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF 
 ALCOHOL. 
 
 ^hen Alcohol is taken into the body it at 
 once enters the blood from the stomach without 
 digestion, or chemical change, and in a short 
 time has reached every nerve, muscle and gland 
 of the body. The fact that no vital force is ex- 
 pended in effecting its digestion, renders Alcohol, 
 as a medicine, of inestimable value, for the reason 
 that in the shock of injury or collapse of disease 
 the vital forces are paralyzed, and if Alcohol had 
 10 be digested before it could act as a stimulant, 
 it would lie in the stomach without absorption 
 and be utterly useless. 
 
 After Alcohol enters the blood it undergoes 
 oxidation : it is burned up as literally as it is 
 when burned in a lamp. 
 
 From these facts we learn that Alcohol is 
 to be studied in two regards as to its physiological 
 effects: (1) the effect it exerts when it is yet 
 Alcohol and before it is burned up or oxidized ; 
 and (2) the effects due to its oxidation. 
 
 The mischief that is done by Alcohol in the pro- 
 duction of Di-unkenness, with all that this im- 
 
plies, is done before it iH oxidized and while it yet 
 circulates throu<i;'li the system as Alcohol. All are 
 acquainted with the sig'ns and symptoms of 
 J.)i'unkennes>". 
 
 The first effect is stimulation of all the so-called 
 vital forces —nervous, muscular and g'landiilar. 
 If the dose exceeds greatly the amount of two 
 ounces, the stimulant effects are rapidly followed 
 by paresis, or inhibition of nerve, muscle and 
 gland forces. The faculties of the mind become 
 confused, then fail ; consciousness is lost, ar^d the 
 person is in that condition of "beastly intoxica- 
 tion " so called, to the disgrace of humanity, and 
 to the libel of the beasts. 
 
 The reason why a condition of intoxication is 
 recovered from is due to the fact that in time th(i 
 Alcohol is all consumed, and the person regains 
 his natural condition, and in a short time the 
 effect of the poison acting directly as Alcohol— as 
 a specific irritant upon the nerve centres and 
 other structures— has passed away. 
 
 The phenomenon of acute Alcoholism, or a 
 Drunken Fit, is caused by an isomeric change 
 ])roduced upon the nerve tissue by the Alcohol 
 coining into actual contact with the nerve tissue 
 itself. This change is very well understood, and 
 may be illustrated or verified b\ anyone who 
 pleases to make the following experiments : 
 
 The white of an egg\ being pure albumen, may 
 be beaten up and put into a glass. If enough 
 Alcohol be added a change is caused in the albu- 
 men similar to that produced by heat or cooking. 
 It is coagulated or hardened. It is isomerically 
 changed, and is now an allotropic condition of 
 albunu3n. The c^ftects of Alcohol upon the system 
 
will be readily uiulerstood when it is known that 
 a large part ef nerve tissue is albnniinous. 
 Alcohol coag'ulates the albumen in the tissues 
 more or less in every Drunken Fit. When taken 
 habitually it causes a permanent isomeric cnange 
 in all albuminous tissues as a i)reliminary step to 
 the condition and effects known as Chronic Alco- 
 holism. In this condition the nerves are so 
 chaiig'ed in their action and anatomy that the 
 presence of Alcohol is required to enable the 
 nerves and other organs to perform their physio- 
 logical duties. 
 This is the condition of the Drunkard on the 
 
 EGO or subjective side. It is a great change, in- 
 deed from the natural man ; quite as great as 
 that on the objective side, /.<., in his social re- 
 lations. , . 1 
 The human system will admit of the oxidation 
 
 of about six ounces of Alcohol in twenty-four 
 hours, or its equivalent of Brandy, Whisky, 
 Beer or Wine. This is the estimate placed on a 
 man when he is considered as a spirit lamp. 
 
 Alcohol may be burned up in any tissue, organ 
 or gland of the body where oxygen can reach it. 
 When taken in excessive quantities by a person 
 whose capacity for absorbing oxygen, from lung 
 disease " or other disease " is not good, the 
 Alcohol mav remain in the tissues of various 
 organs for a long time, and has been found in th<; 
 brain, liver and other parts on j^ost-morte/ni ex- 
 amination when the person so examined had not 
 taken Alcohol for several weeks prior to death. 
 
 The poisonous effects of Alcohol are, therefore, 
 daQ to the coagulation of Albumen in all album- 
 inous tissues. This process causes hardening of 
 various tissues and organs of the primary lesion. 
 
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The effects of Alcohol when consumed by 
 union with oxyg-en in the various organs of the 
 body are the same primarily, as when Alcohol is 
 burned in a lamp ; heat is the result. 
 
 It is known that all forces, whether physical or 
 biological, are correlated originally with heat. 
 The life on the surface of this planet, and its 
 geological condition, are due to the sun's heat. 
 When Alcohol is burned in the liver, i t produces 
 liear, and this heat is correlative with force. 
 When Alcohol is burned in the nervous system, 
 it produces heat, and this heat is changed into 
 nerve force, whatever the nerve force mav be— 
 whether brain force, sensation or volition. 
 
 In THIS sense Alcohol is a food. It does not 
 furnish the substance of tissue or build up the 
 tissues of the body ; it simply (when oxidized) 
 furnishes heat, which heat is correlated with, or 
 changed into vital force. It is as useless to deny 
 these facts as to deny the correlatior of force. A 
 man might as well deny that Spring, and its 
 germination of seeds in their season, is due to the 
 sun's heat as to deny that Alcohol, w-hen con- 
 sumed in the body, is correlated with vital force. 
 
 This explanation of the physiological effect of 
 Alcohol accounts for all the consequences that 
 Alcohol produces whether used or abused. In 
 large quantities it is a poison, and we have 
 shown how it acts as a poison. In small quan- 
 tities it is a medicine, both as a food and as a 
 stimulant,, both in its effects as Alcohol and when 
 it is consumed. 
 
 In small quantities Alcohol acts as a stimulant 
 in this way : By a very slight impression upon 
 the albuminous tissue it prevents the breaking 
 
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down of the tissue molecules, and thus prevents 
 Avastoof the body. Fatigue is a sensation of 
 rapid breaking down of the tissue molecules of 
 the body due to their functions in hard work. 
 When a person is over- worked until fatigued he 
 has destroyed millions of the tissue molecules of 
 his body ; they are rapidly breaking down and 
 passing out of the body, A few hours rest will 
 restore the waste of the tissues b new material 
 from the blood. When a person s in this con - 
 dition, if a moderate amount of Alcohol be taken 
 it notably lessens the sense of fatigue, and does 
 this by making the molecules of the tissues more 
 STABLE by a hardening of the illuminous portio n 
 of the molecules. 
 
 Many superficial writers deny this fact, and 
 claim that Alcohol is simply an anaesthetic; but 
 when they can disprove the fact that Alcohol 
 coagulates albumen and lessens the elimination 
 of UREA, which is the product of the broken down 
 molecules, or waste of the body, it will be time to 
 listen to their argument. 
 
 That this estimate of Drunkenness is the true 
 one, scientifically, is verified by its analogy with 
 other diseases, e.g., (1) with hereditary, (2) with 
 tliose in which the evidence of organic disease, is 
 determined by the customary means used in in- 
 vestigation of diseases, and (3) by the fact that, 
 like other diseases, it is susceptible of Cure. 
 
 HEREDITY. 
 
 The writings of Maudsley and others, being 
 largely clinical reports of cases, are all proofs of 
 the heredity of Alcoholism. Besides the proof of 
 the direct transmission of Alcoholism, these 
 
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clinical roj^orts show that Drunkenness is a disease 
 for -e that is readily correlated with other diseases, 
 as epilepsy, lunacy, and idiocy. The children of 
 an epileptic may be epileptics or drunkards. 
 The children of a drunkard may be lunatics, 
 epileptics, idiots, or have other manifestations ot 
 nervous diseases. 
 
 If clinical cases prove these facts, we are 
 justified in generalizing* by induction from them, 
 and in applying" these generalizations in their 
 widest sense to all the facts relating to Alcohol- 
 ism. It will be seen that wide applications prove 
 thi^se laws to be true. Chr'stendom has been 
 drinking Alcohol for nearlv nineteen centuries. 
 x\lcoholism is a disease ot Christendom. These 
 laws, deduced by observation of individuals, are 
 proven by observation of the people of Christen- 
 dom at large. The greater number of these 
 people who drink at all, began to drink at the 
 age ot 1<S years ; the ^ eater number cease at 
 the age of 35 years. The greater number of 
 those Avho continue to drink after the age of 35 
 years never recover from the disease, or, as is 
 generally said, they never reform, and are beyond 
 the reach of Christian and other influences. 
 
 It may correctly be inferred fron) this verifi- 
 cation by statistics, that Drunkenness, or Alcohol- 
 ism, like many other diseases, is self-limited. 
 The average duration of this disease— this 
 heirloom of Noah— is about seventeen years. 
 That there is every possible variation from these 
 averages, in intensity of the disease, age, and 
 other points, in individuals, is apparent to any 
 observer. 
 
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PATHOLOGY. 
 
 The pathology of the Liquor Habit, as it is 
 inherited, cannot be demonstrated by post-mortem 
 examinations, or other means, any more definite- 
 ly than inherited lunacy, idiocy, epilepsy or 
 paralysis. The pathological condition, as trans- 
 mitted in all these cases, is alike unknown until 
 the disease is developed. The nature, or essence, 
 lies in a tendency of the molecules to act in a 
 certain manner when they are properly 
 stimulated by relations of the environment. The 
 lunatic becomes unable, by force of irregular ac- 
 tion of the higher cerebal centres, to reason cor- 
 rectly upon the relations between himself and his 
 environment. In the epileptic the motor 
 discharges are given oif so abruptly, and with 
 such explosions, when the centres are acted upon 
 by the peripheral nerves, that a convulsion 
 occurs. In the person who inherits Alcoholism, 
 the opportunity to drink at once develops him 
 into a drunkard. The pathology, as transmitted, 
 lies in the molecules of the higher centres, which 
 determine the character of brain action and 
 which are ttie field where pathological action 
 arises in most nervous diseases that affect the 
 character of the man, and give him his mental 
 status. We can determine the effects of light in 
 the arts and sciences, and in the development of 
 growth in animal and vegetable life ; but we 
 cannot tell all about the constitution and motion 
 of the molecules of ether, Avhich are objectively, 
 what we recognize as light. 
 
 The pathology of developed Alcoholism is 
 determined by post-mortem examinations, and is 
 
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as well known as that of any othd* disease. The 
 ^•ray matter of the brain is congested, as well as 
 the membranes. Generally there is found in the 
 ventricles of the brain, and in the arachnoidal 
 cavity, an effusion of serum. In more advanced 
 cases there is a chronic inflammation of the brain 
 and membranes, with a thickening* of the 
 structure of the latter, blood engorgement of the 
 vessels, and various morbid products, as pus, 
 sero-pus, and serum. 
 
 It is Avell known that many other diseases 
 may develo]) the latent hereditary taint, Alcohol- 
 ism, which lies in the brain of every son of a 
 drinking nation. The clinical reports of the 
 physicians, wiio have made a special study of 
 Alcoliolism, notably those of Dr. Kichardson, show^ 
 that tumor of the brain, syphilis or scrofula, 
 affecting the brain, and Neurasthenia, may 
 develop a mania for Drunkenness. Other 
 diseases, as epilepsy, lunacy, etc., may develop 
 Drunkenness in the person himself, by transfor- 
 mation into this sort of mania, as well as bv 
 transmission of hereditary descent. 
 
 Excessive emotion may render a person epilep- 
 tic, may make him a chattering idiot, or send 
 him to a madhouse, and may even take away 
 his life as by a blow from a giant. What wonder 
 then, that the terrible emotional ^rces, generated 
 by an overwhelming " sea of trouble," spending 
 their strength like a cvclone unon the verv un- 
 stable brain tissue, should make nhn a Drunkard:^ 
 
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DIPSOMANIA, OR PERIODICAL 
 DRUNKENNESS. 
 
 The unprofessional reader, into whose Imncls 
 this book mav come, will not readilv understand 
 that any difference exists between Alcoholism 
 and Dipsomania. The terms have so often been 
 used convertibly to express Drunkenness that 
 the distinction between them has been lost sig'ht 
 of entirely. Alcoholism is that form of the 
 disease in which the subject uses alcoholic liquor 
 daily Avithout restraint. Dipsomania, however, 
 is that form of the disease in which the subject has 
 an irresistible desire, at certain periods, for liquor. 
 It is as much a mania as anv other condition 
 which leads a man to do some act contrarv to his 
 reason, judgment and will. These are dominated 
 by an unseen and unknown power, and he is but 
 a tool in its hands. This unknown imjnilse leads 
 l^im, at certain periods, to drink liquor and he 
 cannot resist it. He is a Dipsomaniac, and this, 
 in the fullest meaning of the word. 
 
 Thousands of men are afflicted with this form of 
 disease, and. hitherto the only relief offered them 
 has been the seclusion and restraint of the 
 asylum. It has been held that the temptations 
 of liquor must not only be removed from tlie 
 patient, but the patient must must be removed 
 from the temptation of liquor ! Science has, for 
 many years, been investig'ating this difficult sub- 
 ject, and it has at length been proved that force 
 is not a necessary factor in the cure of Dipso- 
 mania ; while it is undoubtedly true that it would 
 be useful in some cases. The theory has been 
 
 advanced that, as the will is completely in subjec- 
 
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tion to the animal passion, or the morbid desire for 
 liquor, therefore the patient has no power, of 
 himself, to shun the tempting cup. Hence, it is 
 said, the physical must be restrained in order to 
 control the mental powers. 
 
 A long and extensive experience, added to a 
 thorough examination of the subject, has shown 
 that Periodical Drunkenness can be overcome 
 and cured by medical means, and during the 
 last thirteen years it has been demonstrated in 
 hundreds of cases. 
 
 We find that a man remains steady;, sober, 
 
 upright, and industrious for a year or more' 
 
 when, suddenly, he commences to drink ; and 
 
 after a debauch of several days, and sometimes 
 
 weeks, he stops and remains sober for another 
 
 year or more, and then he gets drunk ag'ain. If 
 
 you toUow that man on through the years you 
 
 will notice that the intervals between his sprees 
 
 become shorter every year, until he falls into tlfe 
 
 every day use of stimulants, and sinks into the 
 
 grave a sodden, maudlin, boastful drunkard. 
 
 Some man have a spree every two weeks ; and 
 
 the periods vary in different cases from weeks to 
 years. 
 
 The Dipsomaniac is always aware of an 
 impending attack of the disease. It does not 
 strike him suddenly, like a blow from a midnight 
 assassin ; it gives him full and fair warning of 
 the danger ahead. For two or three days previous 
 he is languid, restless, troubled with loss of 
 appetite, has an indefinable longing to go some- 
 where OR DO soMBTHiNa; and an intense 
 uneasiness pervading every movement. Every 
 hour draws him nearer to the goal, and he knows 
 
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it ; he is like a boat caught in the maelstrom, 
 every circling eddyofwhicii draws him nearer to 
 destruction ; every hour he is being brought 
 closer to the dangerous cup, and he is passively 
 pushed to the point at which he can no longer 
 refrain from Liquor. Then tbllows the terrible 
 debauch, ending in sickness, misery, shame, 
 remorse, and a loathing of Alcohol in all 
 its forms, lie now becomes sober from ne- 
 cessity. He has reached a point of saturation, 
 and his stomach takes charge, and refuses the 
 admission of any more Alcohol . The taste, smeli, 
 or even thought of Alcohol produces nausea and 
 vomiting. Why is this? He has reached a 
 point of saturation, the cells and tissues of the 
 body acting as store-houses. The oxidation of 
 Alcohol, now taking place, forms an essence of 
 Alcohol, a paraldehyde— Alcohol changed by 
 chemical decomposition. There is now no feeling 
 of necessity or desire, as from this cellular store: 
 house the system is supplied with its needs, and 
 Avhile this supply lasts there is no feeling of 
 necessity or desire for Alcohol. With a 
 regular mode of living and an absence of any 
 emotional disturbances, the supply will last for 
 months, and in some cases, years ; but under any 
 great emotional disturbance this supply is rapidly 
 exhausted, and the spree occurs before the usual 
 period. Habit is a factor at this time, as the 
 cells wiU supply themselves with the amount 
 usually required for the accustomed period. 
 
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TREATMENT. 
 
 The (juestion whether drunkenness lias a phy- 
 sical basis in a deceased condition of the nervous 
 system, being answered it follows, that the treat- 
 ment belongs to the domain of the physician 
 rather than to the persuasive efforts of Christian 
 ladies, the benevolent labors of pastors, or the 
 inspiring zeal of temperance lecturers who know 
 something of the effects of Drunkenness, but very 
 little of the cause. Medical treatment, heretofore, 
 has been limited in a general way to treatment 
 of the secondary results of Alcoholism, or of the 
 direct effects of large quantities of Alcohol acting 
 as a poison. Poisoning by Alcohol is one of the 
 effects of hereditary Drunkenness. The TRUE! 
 medical treatment of this disease consists in the 
 the employment of remedies that will cure the 
 hereditary taint, or the appetite for strong drink 
 —that will PREVENT Drunkenness. The 
 medical treatment of delirium tremens is one 
 thing, and the treatment of the cause of delir- 
 ium TREMENS is another and a very different 
 thing. 
 
 We come now to speak of our discovery of the 
 Double Chloride of Gold in the treatment of the 
 drunken habit — the specific cure for Drunkenness, 
 or Alcoholism. So far as the pathology of this 
 disease is understood, the indication for the Gold 
 Remedy is a rational one, and not empirical. 
 The action of gold, as a medicine, is primarily 
 upon th3 higher cerebral nerve centres, the very 
 seat of diseased will, and of the mania for strong 
 drink. It acts directly upon those portions of the 
 nervous system in Avhich disease causes lunacy, 
 
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epilepsy, dementia, and the drinking" habit 
 Gold hnfi long been used by physicians for that 
 form of insanity known as melancholia. Our 
 latest authors, Bartholow, Wood, and Trousseau, 
 speak highly of its beneficial effects in insanity. 
 In the ncAv disease of the nervous system, Neur- 
 asthenia, or Nerve exhaustion, at present so pre- 
 valent among" Canadians, the Double Chloride of 
 Gold is daily prescribed by physicians. It is 
 beneficial in these diseases, but its specific effect 
 as a Remedy, is against the mania for Drunken- 
 ness. The Double Chloride of Gold has long been 
 used in syp.iilis, scrofula, tumors of the brain, as 
 well as in epileps}^ and other nervous diseases. 
 Dr. Richardson's reports prove that syphilis, 
 scrofula, and diseases of the brain may originate 
 the mania for drink. In such cases of blood-taint 
 the Gold Remedy fills a double mission. Ii will 
 remove the constitutional taint better than anv 
 other Remedy known, and at the same time Cure 
 the induced disease of Drunkenness. 
 
 It is obvious that, however apparent may be 
 the rational or a priori indication of the Gold 
 Treatment, as a specific for Drunkenness, that a 
 posteriori proof from actual trial is necessary. 
 The Treatment has never yet failed when proper- 
 ly used. Thousands of Cures have been already 
 made, and they alone are sufficient proof. 
 
 After thirteen years of persistent and con- 
 tinued experience, the Doiible Chloride of Gold 
 Treatment has uniformly effected a Cure in 
 FROM Four to Six Weeks, and left the patient 
 without a desire for intoxicants, or for any 
 stimulant as a substitute. Thus far it has been 
 successful, and no patient so cured need ever 
 
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relaijse. The Liquor Habit, on the continry, 
 and intoxicants, will becom(> abhorrent to all wlio 
 iiave taken the Treatment. 
 
 It must not be assumed, however, that 
 Dipsomaniacs can be treated the same as Habitual 
 drunkards; thev cannot. The Habitual drunk- 
 ard takes a course of treatment, and, in all 
 ordinary cases, the Alcoholic appetite is eradi- 
 cated, and that element having* an attinity tor 
 the i)oison of Alcohol removed from the system. 
 With the Periodical drinker it is different. To 
 make his cure a satisfactory and permanent one 
 the nervous svstem has to be rebuilt and rein- 
 vigorated, and a thoroug'h condition of stamina 
 and stability imparted to the nerve cells, even 
 imparting' to them a gTeater degree of stamina, 
 and condition favorable to self control, or inhibi- 
 tion, than they ever possessed before. This, 
 experience has demonstrated, the Double 
 Chloride of Gold Cure will accomplish, and during 
 the past twelve years has been demonstrated in 
 tliousands of cases. 
 
 OPIU]\[ AND MORPHINE HABIT 
 
 CURED. 
 
 Tlie Double Chloride of Oold Treatment 
 
 Xever Falls. 
 
 The habit of using* Opium or Morphine has 
 g*rown to a fearful extent during* the past few 
 years. A comparatively short time sl^^o it was 
 seldom used except as prescribed by a physician, 
 but now every city, village and hamlet furnishes 
 its quota of victims. They are numbered b\' 
 thousands, and tens of thousands, and are to be 
 found ever \- where. Taken at first to allay pain 
 
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or relieve sutterlng', it nipidly becomes a ueces- 
 sitv of existence, and linally assumes despotic 
 control over its victim. 
 
 In this condition the confirmed ()j)ium User 
 seeks some method of escape from an enemy 
 which is as relentless as i^is powerful, as power 
 ful as it is deadly; for the continued use of the 
 drug" must eventually eat out the life of its 
 devotee. The tortures that have to be endured 
 begg-ar all attempts at description, and the 
 imagination fail.; to con-.eive, or the tongue of 
 the most eloquent describe, all the horrors which 
 attend the use of Opium. It may well be said 
 that the unfortunate victim suffers a living 
 death, from which there seems no refuge, no hope 
 of deliverance. 
 
 To this large and constantly increasing class 
 ha\'e been brought many remedies which ottered 
 a speedy and permanent relief. Men, trading 
 upon the sufferings and credulity of humanity, 
 have attempted to foist upon them nostrums to 
 which they dare not give a name, and the 
 elements of whose composition were kept a pro- 
 found secret. It has been definitely ascertained 
 that these so-called ''cures," or "antidotes," are 
 composed chiefly of ghxerine and a solution of 
 Morphine. 
 
 It is needless to say that the ''cures" did not 
 Cure, and to-day thousands of men and women, 
 who have been duped, are looking eagerly for 
 some ray of hope to illumine the darkness of their 
 lives, and yet they are fearful ol trying any 
 more antidotes for the Opium Habit. 
 
 We confidently recommend our Sanitarium 
 treatment to alf sufferers from this destroying 
 
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habit. Scienti.sts unite in saying- that the patent 
 medical agent which forms the basis of our treat- 
 ment is infallible in all the diseases that effect 
 the nervous system and hence is pacuUarly valu- 
 able in the eradication of the desire for opium or 
 morphine. It destroys all desire for th3 drug, 
 and does so wirnouT i-^in oh inconvenience to 
 THE PATIENT. The cui'e is made so quietly and 
 gently, that the patient hardly realizes that he 
 or she is under treatment till the cure is made, 
 and they are ready to return to their homes in 
 hearty, buoyant health, and as strong physically 
 as they Wvire in th3 hey day of life. 
 
 THE TOBACCO HABIT 
 
 IT8 USE, ABUSE AND CUKE. 
 
 The use of Tobacco is now so prevalent among 
 Canadians, and so rapidly increasing, that the 
 attention of the medical profession has been par- 
 ticularly drawn to it. Many remedies have been 
 proposed and tried, with some g-ood results and 
 many vexatious failures, but the most effective 
 agent yet employed is Gold. During a long and 
 extensive experience it has invariably been found 
 that, when properly prepared and administered, 
 Gold is an invaluable and never-failing' Eemedy 
 for the Tobacco Habit— a habit which to-day is 
 sapping the foundations of Canadian manhood. 
 
 For this condition of the system reason as well 
 as science would indicate a Remedy which will 
 have a direct and positive «ffect upon the nerve 
 centres. Such an agent is found in the Double 
 Chloride of Gold. The remarkable therapeutical 
 virtues of Gold have long- been known, but its 
 scientific and accurate application has not long 
 
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been uudiTstood by tho profession, and hence its 
 disuse. By the special method of preparation 
 employed, the Double Chloride of Gold has become 
 a great medical agent, which, acting promptly 
 upon the nerv( centres, gives to the worn-out 
 and diseased Tobacco system renewed health, 
 activity and life by antagonizing and eradicating 
 the narciene and carbon-monoxide of Tobacco. 
 
 CIGARETTES. 
 
 The Cigarette Habit has become so prevalent 
 in the last tw^enty years that, in all the clticis, 
 they are constantly smoked by everything wear- 
 ing male clothes, from a bootblack to a merchant's 
 clerk. Too much cannot be said of this soul- 
 sapping, body-demoralizing abomination of the 
 
 present day, 
 
 The make-up and contents of the Cigarette 
 generall}^ found upon the market is that of unripe 
 and imperfectly prepared Tobacco. This Tobacco 
 is first soaked in nicotine, largely impregnated 
 with Opium, Stramonium, or Belladonna. The 
 wrapper is usually rice paper whitened with 
 Arsenic. The main evil of Cigarette smoking 
 arises from the inhalation of carbon-mono>ide, 
 which is extremely poisonous on account of its 
 strong affinity for the haemoglobin of the blood, 
 which brings about cardiac inhibition and he?i^- 
 failure. Every day the papers are filled v^ith 
 some story of death by heart failure from t:ie ex- 
 cessive use of Cigarettes, and in nearly every 
 case they bring about a desire and necessity for 
 either Opium or Alcoholic stimulants. 
 
 The Treatment at once arrests the- progress 
 known as isomeric change, caused by the use of 
 
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Tobacco and its poisonous nicotine products. It 
 repairs the wasted and debilitated nerve tissue, 
 and assists everv or^an of the bodv in its i'unc- 
 tional work. Its results will be at once manifest 
 in an improved appetite, restful sleep, and active 
 mental force. It will give back the freshness of 
 youth in courage, hopi' and physical vigor. Gold 
 as a Chloride, is the only medical agent known 
 that will effectually break up an inveterate 
 "Tobacco Habit" without injury to the patient. 
 
 Oar I'reatment of the "Tobacco Habit' is in- 
 variably successful and a two weeks' course is 
 usually sufficient to accomplish a complete cure. 
 
 Acceding to the Avishes of many Avho cannot 
 avail themselves of our Sanitarium Treatment 
 Ave have placed the Double Chloride of Gold in the 
 form of a Home Treatment for the "Tobacco 
 Habit . ■ ' A special formula of the Double Chloride 
 of Gold is carefully compounded Avith reference to 
 every form of this Habit. It is put up in Packets 
 Avith full directions enclosed. Price $5.0u each. 
 
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OAKVILLE, ONT. 
 
 Was chosen by the company as a desirable 
 location for its Sanitarium, owing to its accessible 
 situation, being easily reached by boat or rail. 
 The site of the village is delightfully surrounded 
 by the richest fruit district in the Province, with 
 charming drives leading in all directions. The 
 fishing in the neighborhood is excellent, and for 
 quiet retirement and freedom from family or 
 business cares nothing more could be desired, 
 the small expense in railway travel and the 
 cheapness of living here is also a strong recom- 
 mendation to many whose means would almost 
 comphitely preclude them from seeking similar 
 institutions in distant States. "Lakehurst" is 
 one of the most delightfully situated properties on 
 the north shore of LaVo Ontario. The Sanitarium 
 building was refitted throughout in a manner 
 which renders it peculiarly suitable for our ob- 
 jects ; and we are in a position to offer our guests 
 a degree of comfort, and if desired, seclusion, not 
 elsewhere obtainable. The appointments and 
 Cuisine are of the highest order. Our Medical 
 Superintendent devotes his entire time to the 
 care of patients at "Lakehurst" and does not 
 engage in general practice. 
 
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Wc hope to welcome many an uutbrtiiiiatc 
 victim of the D.-ink Habit to Oakville Avitli the 
 happy assurance of a pleasant, safe, lasting", and 
 comnletelv successftil cure in every instance. 
 The patient will depart in four weeks leaving 
 liquor behind him forever, but retaining- remem- 
 brances for the remainder of his life of perhaps 
 the very happiest consecutive twenty-eight days 
 of his existence. 
 
 Address for furiher information, 
 
 THE MEDICAL SUPERINTENDENT, 
 LAKEHURST SANITARIUM, 
 
 OAKVILLE, ONT. 
 
 OR 
 
 THE SECRETARY, 
 
 35 BANK OF COMMERCE BUILDING, 
 
 TORONTO 
 
 Telephone 1 163 
 

 
 
 
 
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