A CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2066, 13 April 1883, Page 2

A CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.

There is a famous prescription in use in England for the cure of drunkenness, by which thousands are said to have been assisted in recovering themselves. The prescription came into notoriety through the efforts of John Vine Hall, commander of the Great Eastern, steamship. He had fallen into such habitual drunkenness that his most earnest efforts to reclaim himself proved unavailing. At length he sought the advice of an eminent physician, who gave him a prescription which he followed faithfully for eleven months. At the end of that time he had lost all desire for liquor, although he had been for many times led captive by a most debasing appetite. The prescription, which he afterwards published, and by which so many drunkards have been assisted to reform, is as follows :—Sulphate of iron, five'grains; magnesia, ten grains; peppermint water, eleven drachms ; spirit of nutmeg, one drachm ; twice a day. This preparation acts as a tonic and stimulant, and so partially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and prevents that absolute physical and moral prostration that follows a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks.