Cure for Alcoholism

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 61, 10 November 1887, Page 3

Cure for Alcoholism

I was one of those unfortunates given to strong drink. It reduced me to degradation. I vowed and strove long and hard, but I seldom held victory over liquor long. I hated drunkenness, but still I drank. When I left it off I felt a horrid want of something I must have or go distracted, t could neither eat, work nor sleep. I entered a reformatory and frayed for strength; still I must drink, lived so for over twenty years; in tha*, time I never abstained over three months' hand-running. At length I was sent to the House of Correction as a vagrant. If my family had been provided for I would have preferred to remain there, out of liquor and - . Explaining my affliction to a fellow prisoner —a man of much education and experience —he advised me to take a preparation of ground quassia; a half ounce steeped in a pint of vinegar, and to put about a small teaspoonf ul of it in a little water and drink it down every time the liquor thirst came upon me violently.- I found it satisfied the cravings and diffused a feeling of stimulation add strength. When 1 was discharged. I continued this cure, and I persevered till the thirst was conquered. For two years I have not tasted liquor, and I have no desire 1 for it.: Lately to try my strength, I have handled and smelt whisky, but I have no temptation to take it. I give this for the consideration of the unfortunate, several of whom I know have recovered by the same means which 1 no longer require to use.—Exchange.