The New Dominion

Hope for the Drunkard.

Inebriety is curable, as the Boston Traveler asserts that it is, by the following method, then is there hope for the victim of this base passion—drink. That journal makes the following assertion: An intemperate person can easily supply himself with the remedies used at all the inebriate asylums, and be his own physician, at his own home, without the necessary expense and publicity of visiting the Washingtonian Home or any other public institution. His laboratory need only contain a small quantity of cayenne pepper, a pot of concentrated extract of beef, and a few grains of bromide of potassium. When the desire for alcoholic drink recurs, make a tea from the cayenne pepper as strong as can be taken with any degree of comfort; sweeten it with milk and sugar and drink. This tea will supply the place that a glass of liquor would fill and will leave no injurious effect behind. Repeated daily as often as the appetite returns, it will be but a few days before the sufferer will have become disgusted with the taste of the pepper, and with the appearance of this disgust disappears the love of liquor. "The fact is proved every day. The extract of beef is to be made into beef tea, according to the direction on the pot, in such quantities as may be needed for the time being, and furnishes a cheap, easily digested, and healthy nutriment—it being made to stay on the stomach when heavier articles of food would be rejected. The bromide of potassium is to be used carefully, and only in case of extreme nervousness, the dose being from fifteen to twenty grains, dissolved in water. This is a public exhibit of the method of treatment adopted at the inebriate asylums. In addition thereto the drinking man should surround himself with influences which tend to make him forget the degrading associations of the bar-room and lift him upward. He should endeavor, so far as his business avocations will permit, to sleep, bathe, and eat regularly, and obey the laws of health. By the adoption of this course energetically and sincerely, no man who has the will to reform can fail to do so. Hundreds and thousands can attest the truth of these statements.