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the voice of conscience and make powerless the moral 

 force of education, of natural regard for human life; 

 and alcohol does just that. 



The Cure of Intemperance.— The only cure for 

 a drunkard is total abstinence. A person who has 

 once been greatly addicted to the use of alcohol can- 

 not use it in moderation. A person who is suffering 

 from any of the functional diseases induced by alcohol 

 must relinquish all stimulants if he would recover. 

 Substitutes in the shape of tobacco, strong tea and 

 coffee, even of soda water, are dangerous. Tobacco 

 produces a desire for liquor in one who has been accus- 

 tomed to drink. Tea and coffee have similar effects, 

 though in much less degree. The drinking of large 

 quantities of fluid of any sort is injurious, as it pro- 

 duces a relaxed state of the stomach which causes a 

 craving for stimulus. The ''cinchona cure" of the 

 appetite for liquor is worthless. The only plan which 

 affords a way of escape from the haunting clamors 

 of appetite in a person trying to reform is that pro- 

 posed by Mr. Napier, who a few years ago read before 

 a learned society in England a paper giving an account 

 of the cure of a large number of cases of drunkenness 

 by ^ the adoption of a vegetarian diet. 



LIMIT OF THE PERIODS OF INCUBATION AND CON- 

 TAGION IN INFECTIOUS MALADIES* 



Diphtheria.— The average incubation period is two 

 days, more rarely four days, and occasionally seven 

 days. The virulence of contagion is very great. In- 



* For deseripition and cure of these and other diseases not treated in 

 this work, see ' ' Home Book of Modern Medicine, " by J. H. Kellogg, 

 M. D. 



