The American National Temperance Hospital.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 300, 28 April 1894, Page 4

The American National Temperance Hospital.

Dr Mary Weeks Burnet, writing re- f oently to the Union Signal, as to the success of the above institution, said : 1 " We have made wonderful progress m every direction during the past year. We have treated over 700 cases in all, and have had no deaths, though in a number of cases upon entering, recovery seemed very doubtful. We have had a number of enquiries from ho?(>ita)s asking > how our medicines are prepared, and let ters from druggists asking when our medicines are ready to be placed in the market ; also from grocers askine for non«alcoholic flavouring extracts. All indicate an arrest cf thought Though * we have had no deaths as yet, tney will, no doubt, occur, as many cases are so ill when taken in that recover? seem.- impos* Bible Bat we claim that deaths will be fewer under our methods than under alcoholic treatment. Not only does our own experience to date prove this, but the London Temperance Hospital, in operation now f r seventeen years, has an experience which, as they say in their i last report, fully justifies the widest possible application of no alcohol in \ medicine „ Our creat Temperance reform is but in its infancy. Prohibition of the liquor traffic can never be enforced so long as drug «tore saloons are by (be people con Bi>ered » necessity. The records of our hospital will be necessary to bring about real Prohibition, for the people must know for a certainty that in prohibiting the liquor traffic ther are not jeopardi* sing their lives, but saving them " After telling of the work necessary to be done in the hospital, Dr. Burnett asks : ■' Where is the philanthropist who | will give 20 000 dollnrs to place this great Temperance laboratory on a firm financial basis P We must have a mcdi cal college, where our young men and young women can have sound Temperance teaching in the lecture room, and at the bedside. I have not time to give details of all these buildings as they are planned, but it will require 250,000 dol Jars to build them, and we ouuht to be able to raise this entire amount within the next year The plan for the hospital is a main building witb wings. Anyone building a wing ha« the privilege uf naming it. and may decide what class of ca-tes shall occupy it. Wo intend to place it near the centre of the city, so that we may be able to take in many emergency esses, such as those resulting from street and railroad accidents We know that oar nonalcoholic methods will enable many of these cases to recover, which under other treatment would die. Various methods have been adopted to enable you to raise the money needed."