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Southland Times, Issue 585, 31 October 1866, Page 2

_ Cube fob Dbtinkenness. — There is a prescription in use in England for the cure of drunkeness, by which the thousand are said to have been assisted in recovering themselves. The receipt came into notoriety through the efforts of a gentleman who at one time commanded 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 an eminent physician, who gave him a prescription which he followed faithfully for seven months, and at the end of that time had lost all desire for liquor, although he had been for many years led captive by a most debasing appetite. The receipt which he afterwards published, and by which so many drunkards have been led to reform, is as follows: Sulphate of iron, five grains; magnesia, ten grains ; peppermint water seven drachms; spirit of nutmeg, one, drachm : twice a day. This preparation acts as 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 tne use of stimulating diinkß.--" Scientific American.