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Nature, without further aid, can effect it, rest, nutrition and phos- 

 phates, the hypophosphites and the reconstructive haematics and other 

 rebuilders of the blood. Milk, beef-tea and capsicum and other stom- 

 achics. Early in the treatment a hair of the dog that bit him — a 

 milk-punch or egg nog, egg phosphates flavored with wine or whiskey, 

 the latter soon withdrawn. In this stage the wines of coca, the beef, 

 wine, iron and strychnine compounds, calisaya cordials, egg phos- 

 phates and stimulant tonics, are temporarily admissible. 



When the patient is cured ot his recent attack of delirium trem- 

 ens, or recuperated from his last debauch then the hypodermic medi- 

 cation that is to hold him from further relapse, to re-tone his system 

 and break him of his taste, must be instituted, if we have not begun 

 it sooner. 



The sixth and final essential, to which all our previous efforts lead 

 us, is destruction of the drink craving, and this is done on physio- 

 logical principles. The drink craving is pathological perversion of 

 physiological cell action, and lies in the realm of the cerebral cortex. 

 This part of our subject belongs to psychiatry and psychical suggest- 

 ion, effected by a therapy directed to these morbidly acting centers of 

 the brain, accomplishes our purpose. When the drink craving comes 

 on, having in the meantime rebuilt the shattered brain and nervous 

 system and restored the mental tone as much as possible, we do not 

 absolutely inhibit the use of the accustomed drink, but train the 

 victim's own inhibitions, first, by suggestion ; second, by moderate 

 indulgence properly treated. 



We do not say, " You shall not, but you had better not drink. 

 You know it is poison to you and you are its slave. You should re- 

 sist. Your treatment has made you strong. You can resist. Whis- 

 key no longer tastes as good to you. You no longer need it. You 

 have the power now and should assert your manhood," and with 

 these suggestions , perhaps the victim will try the liquor, we give him 

 spiriius frumentii oz.ij, cum vini antimonii, fdr.i, and repeat adlibitum,ox 

 we have previously given him apomorphia with aurum bichloride for 

 psychical effect. 



Under this or similar management of the appetite, the victim ac- 

 quires a disgust for his favorite drink, he discovers his inhibition of 

 the propensity is strengthened, and a disgust supplants the taste, 

 which abides till he is fully restored in nerve tone and power to per- 

 manently resist and assert his manhood and maintain it against all fu- 

 ture assaults of the foe. 



As I cannot, in the brief time allowed, further detail my plan of 



