SELF-CURE FOR INEBRIETY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 348, 19 December 1879, Page 7

SELF-CURE FOR INEBRIETY.

A person afflicted with a craving for alcoholic liquor, says the Boston Traveller, can easily supply himself with the remedies used at nearly all inebriate asylums, and be his own physician at his own home without the necessary expense and publicity of visiting any reformatory institution. His laboratory need contain only a smail quantity of cayenne pepper, a pot of concentrated extract of beef, aud a few grains of bromide of potassium. When the desire for alcoholic drink recurs, make a tea from the cayenne pepper, as strong as can be taken with any degree of comfort, sweeten it with milk and sugar, and drink. This tea will supply the same place that a glass of liquor would fill, and will leave no injurious effect behind. Repeated daily as oftep a 9 the appetite returns, it will be but a few days before the sufferer will have become digusted with the taste of the pepper, and with the appearance of this disgust disappears the love of liquor. This fact is proven every day. The extract of beef is to be made into beef tea according to the directions on the pot, in quantities as may be needed for the time being, and furnishes a cheap, easily digested and healthy nutriment, it being made, "to stay on the stomach," when heavy articles of food would be rejected. The bromide of potassium is to be used carefully, and only in case of extreme nervousness, the dose being from fifteen to twenty graits, dissolved in water. This is a public exhibit of tbe method of treatment adopted at the inebriate asylums. In addition thereto, the drinking man should surround himself with influences which tend to make him forget the degrading associations of the bar-room, and lift him upward. He should endeavour, so far as his business vocations will permit, to sleep, bathe and cat regularly, and obey tbe laws of health. By the adoption of this course, energetically and sincerely, no man who has the will to reform can fail to do so. Hundreds and thousands can attest the trnth of these statements.

A correspondent of the Times who attempted to cross the Russian frontier without a passport, in the hope of witnessing the reception of the Emperor William at Alexandrovno, was immediately sent back on to German territory by a scandalised gendarme. The correspondent was unable to learn anything further than that the two Emperors had met on the most affectionate terms, and from his description it would seem that the Russian troops who guarded the Czar were most effusive in their demonstrations of affection for everything German. He mentions a fact of considerable interest — namely, that the German Kaiser had been preceded by a few days by the illustrious Moltke, who had been in secret conference with tbe Cjar and his advisers.