A CURE FOR ALCOHOLISM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8062, 1 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

A CURE FOR ALCOHOLISM.

I was one of those unfortunates given to strong drink. It reduced me to degradation. I vowed and strove long and bard, 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. I could neither eat, work, nor sleep. I entered a reformatory and prayed for strength; still I must drink. I lived so for over twenty years ; in that time I never abstained over three mouths hand-running. At length I wa3 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 temptation. Explaining my affliction to a fellow-pris-oner—a man of much education and experience—he advised me to make a vinegar of ground quassia; a half ounce steeped in a pint of vinegar, and to put about a small tea«poonful of it in a little water and drink it down every time the liquor thirst came upon me violently. 1 found it satisfied the cravings and diffused a feeling of stimulation and strength. When I 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 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 I uo longer require to use.— Connecticut Home.