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thought him to have been hardly capable of any service; and especially of the delicate work, which belongs to the business in which he is engaged. But I have since had the pleasure to see him at his work with a steady hand; and, I believe, with a very grateful heart for the change that has been effected in him. He has lately removed to a neigbouring state, where I have a strong confidence that he will do well.

E. F. is a young mechanic. He came to me in a very reduced state of health, to ask for the medicine. He took it, and has been for some weeks cured. He is now, comparatively, a strong man. He says that he is now "remarkably well," and that he "feels like a new man."

F. G. is the son of an aged, very infirm and very pious mother, who wanted nothing so much to bring her to a perfect resignation in the prospect of death, as the recovery of her child from intemperance. He is recovered, and the venerable mother is happy.

H. I. freely confessed to me that he had no power to resist the demands of his appetite. It seemed indispensable that he should be separated from his family. He is now perfectly temperate, and is a happy husband and father. I have known him, since his recovery, to be exposed to as great a temptation as he could probably have been called to resist; and I am certain that he took no ardent spirits, and I believe that he had no desire for any. He is now regularly pursuing a business, which will give a comfortable support to his family.

I. J. went through a course of medicated spirits in the beginning of June, and is now a temperate man. J. K. was a very intemperate, and a very unhappy

man.

But, for three months past, I think that he has

not tasted ardent spirits. His employer assures me that he is a remarkably changed man, and is earning $10 per week.

K. L. has been more recently cured; but he feels assured that the cure is complete. He is going into the country, and is very desirous to take with him the means of restoring others.

L. M. was every day intoxicated for several weeks before taking the medicated spirits; and at the time of beginning to take them, was in a very reduced and wretched condition. This person has not tasted ardent spirits for the three last months, and is now well and happy.

There are other cases, of which I think that I could speak with equal confidence; and there are some now under my care, of whose recovery I feel no doubt. But, I shall be told, that there are also cases, in which the attempt to cure intemperance by medicated spirits has utterly failed. I admit the fact. There are three or four cases of failure among those to whom I have administered the medicine; and there are three others, of which I am not prepared to give an opinion, though I have a strong ground of hope concerning them. Of these cases of failure, however, it must be said, that if a recovery had been effected, the rescue would have been equal to that which is ever obtained in any stage of any disease. In one of the cases of cure which I have mentioned, the individual had been a drinker of ardent spirits for twenty years. But both his mind and body were far less shattered than were those of the persons on whom the medicine has failed. When the whole system is so diseased as it is often found to be in the intemperate, the work of their recovery, if attempted, should be in the hands of a physician.

Is it asked, "how long are these cures to last?" I answer, I cannot tell. But I am sure that there are cases of three months standing, in which the cure seems so far to be complete. And is the recovery of an intemperate man or woman, even for three months, nothing? If happiness, for three months, is restored to an intemperate man's family and relations, and these are all to be taken into the account, in estimating the amount of good produced; but, above all, if one who has been intemperate, is for three months brought into a state to be affected by religious and moral considerations; into a state in which he can think, and converse, and live as a rational and immortal being should think, and converse, and live, is not the time that is so redeemed from sin and misery worth the effort, that is required for its redemption? While a man is intemperate, he is generally a very bad man in all the relations of life. He is neither faithful to his Maker, nor his fellow creatures. He is neither fit to live, nor to die. Nor can he be a good man, till he is recovered from his intemperance. But if recovered for three, or for six months, may not much be done within this time to strengthen religious principles in his heart; to improve his character; and to prepare him, as he has never before been prepared, to resist, and to overcome temptation ?

That the preparations given to excite a disgust of ardent spirits sometimes fail of their object; and that dif ferent, and stronger means are necessary for this purpose in one than in another, surely is not strange. What is the medicine which does not sometimes fail to accomplish its design? What is the prescription, that would maintain its ground in a physician's mind, if success, in every instance of its application, is required to establish

its character? It is as unquestionable, that at least a temporary cure of the love of ardent spirits may, in many cases, be effected, as it is that what is called typhus fever may in many cases be cured. And, I ask, what is the disease which the faculty would attempt to cure, if it were thought idle to attempt to cure any, which might not in all cases be cured?

It is also made an objection to the use of medicine for this purpose, that even where it produces a disgust of the liquor in which it is taken, the appetite is as strong as ever for other intoxicating liquors. This is not exactly true. I have been told by several, who have taken it only in one liquor, that they have wholly lost the unnatural thirst which before tormented them; the“ hankering" which they felt, while they were accustomed to drink ardent spirits. Besides, the intemperate have sometimes so strong a preference for one kind of ardent spirits, that they have little or no relish for any other. This preference is so strong, that there are many, who cannot afford to purchase as much even of the cheapest of these spirits, as they are accustomed to drink, who will yet daily embarrass themselves with debt, that they may obtain their poison in the form in which they love. it. And a confirmed drunkard will have his intoxicat

ing draught, though a poor, hard labouring wife, and hungry children are crying around him, and are begging for the bread of which his intemperance deprives them. But, suppose that a man, in whom appetite is so strong, and the moral feeling is so weak and debased, af ter being disgusted with one form of alcohol, should resort to another. And suppose too,-which is indeed true, that some who have been cured of all desire of ardent spirits in any form, should intoxicate themselves

with cider, and strong beer. What is to be done in these cases? I answer, that every form of alcohol, and every intoxicating liquor which the patient is disposed to take, must be medicated. There are cases in which the cure of a love of all intoxicating liquors has been found to be a very simple work. And there are also cases,-and was not this to have been expected?-in which it is a long, and a very difficult work. But is not the object worth the labour required for it? If a drunkard can be thoroughly cured, by all the medical preparations that can be administered to him through a confinement of three months to his bed, the cure, with respect both to his body and his soul, is very cheaply purchased.

The intemperate love of ardent spirits is indeed an affection of the mind. It therefore may be, and in a few cases has been, overcome by a strong and persevering action of the mind. The resolution to deny the appetite has been maintained, till a healthful state of the stomach has been produced; and thus all desire for the unnatural stimulus has been extinguished. Few, however, have the mental vigor which is demanded, for success in this course of healing. With nine hundred and ninety nine out of a thousand, the work of their restoration demands the aid of medicine, as well as of moral means. And surely the encouragement to impart this aid is very great, if one out of six, or even ten, may be thus recovered. But if, as I have no doubt is the truth, three out of four may, by persevering effort, be thoroughly cured, let the politician, let the philanthropist, let the christian patronize the work of staying that plague, which is spreading sin, and misery, and death through the land.

A word or two of the modus operandi in these cases. This is very different in different individuals. Some are

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