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treatment, this outline must suffice, with the promise in another com- 

 munication of special prescriptions and combinations, embodying the 

 plan of treatment here outlined, and which has proven successful in 

 desperate cases. 



After your patient is cured, after the toxic effects of alcohol have 

 gone from the blood, and the higher and lower nerve centers and the 

 damaged tissues of the body have regained their normal nutrition, 

 powers of assimilation, and strength of physiological action and re- 

 sistance ; after confidence in his strength has returned to the patient, 

 he must be warned to never again have confidence in his power of re- 

 sistance with alcohol in his blood. Let him that thinketh he standeth 

 then take heed lest he fall again. The cure of the drink habit is not 

 always perpetual ; it is not everlasting without the aid of the patient 

 himself. Though to some the appetite never comes back, to others it 

 is not safe to trust it with temptation. So that the safe plan, since no 

 inebriate fully knows the full extent of his own inherent organic in- 

 stability, is to " touch not, taste not, handle not," ever after. His 

 treatment leaves him strong enough to say "No," and "Get thee 

 behind me, Satan," to his tempter. It does not always leave him so 

 strong that he can take the tempter to his bosom. He cannot always 

 try a tussle with the tempter and not be thrown. 



Tobacco Insanity. 1 



The deteriorating influence of tobacco-using upon the young was 

 long ago recognized by the French government, leading to the prohi- 

 bition of the use of tobacco by the students in the public schools. 

 The Swiss government have taken even stronger ground upon this 

 matter, forbidding the use of tobacco altogether to juniors. A boy 

 found smoking in the streets is now promptly arrested and punished 

 by fine or imprisonment. 



Dr. Bremer, late physician to St. Vincent's Institution for the In- 

 sane, at St. Louis, has recently called attention to the fact that the use 

 of tobacco by the young is productive of mental and moral deteriora- 

 tion, while in older persons the use of the weed produces brain dis- 

 ease and insanity. He attributes the obscure and unintelligible style 

 of the philosopher Kant to his excessive use of tobacco, and he might 

 with equal justice find in tobacco-using a cause for the notorious iras- 

 cibility and pessimistic tendencies of the Scotch author Carlyle. 



The editor of the Review of Insanity and Nervous Diseases an- 



1 Dr. J. H. Kellogg. Editorial in Modern Medicine, II, 10, Oct., 1893. 



