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and exact living — exact use of all means and appliances; every 

 hygienic, physical, and mental remedy known — should be 

 applied to build up and restore them to temperate living. 

 The terms of confinement should be shorter, and the remedies 

 suited to recent cases. Employment should be required of 

 each one, and, if able, they should pay for their care in labor 

 or otherwise. 



A third class of hospitals would be required for wealthy 

 and recent cases. The general plan would be as before: 

 military care and training, with nerve and brain rest. The 

 same special object would exist, to ascertain the conditions 

 and causes which provoked the inebriety, and remove them; 

 also to build up the entire man to resist and overcome these 

 disease impulses in the future. To this can be added all the 

 moral forces of prayer, faith, and conversion, together with 

 every possible stimulation of the higher brain centers. The 

 application of such remedies where the physical health and 

 surroundings are the most favorable would be followed by the 

 best results. 



The study of inebriety in these hospitals would reveal 

 many of the great underlying causes and laws which are active 

 in producing this drink evil. The power and influence of the 

 saloon and unregulated marriages would be seen and reaUzed. 



We have arrived at a period where all phenomena of 

 loss, suffering, and evil must be regarded from a physical 

 point of view. They are the results of tangible causes that 

 may be known and understood. The drink phenomena and 

 problem must be solved along this line. 



If we consider the great evolutionary principles which 

 underlie and control all these movements of individuals and 

 races, this subject appears in a new light. All students of 

 science understand that disease and degeneration, either in- 

 herited or acquired, come under the operation of great natural 

 laws which may be studied and understood. 



Degeneration, disease, and premature death are condi- 

 tions that are preventable beyond the wildest dream of the 

 enthusiast, but along lines that are yet to be discovered. Al- 

 ready the possibility of averting insanity, idiocy, criminality, 

 pauperism, and other afflictions, looms up like the mountain 



