NOVEL ANTI-DRINK REMEDY.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 23, Issue 5, 19 January 1912, Page 2

NOVEL ANTI-DRINK REMEDY.

Sir James Sawyer, the eminent physician, proposes a very simple preparation to allay the drink craving of dipsomaniacs. He says Take of black pepper, in fine powder, lOoz. ; rectified spirit a sufficiency. Pack the pepper tightly in a percolator, and pour over it carefully half a pint of spirit. At the expiration of two hours add more spirit, and let it percolate slowly until one pint of the tincture has been collected. Dose 5-20 mm. Besides the use in drink craving, he suggests that this tincture may find frequent and felioious employment when stomachic, carminative, stimulant, and digestive effects are desired. Punctuality, assiduity, economy, ingenuity, interest in our tasks : these may be described as commonplace virtues ; but they are certainly not virtues absolutely common.—Sir Christopher Furness. The passions cannot be let loose and chained up, like certain animals, at. -ed and appointed intervals. — Rus ileus.