Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — CURING INTEMPERANCE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CURING INTEMPERANCE.

DR. BORTON’S CHEAT WORK AT WARSAW. IND. An trnbroken Record of Cures—A Remedy for the Drinking Habit tliet Is Effectual In all Stages of Disease—Plain Story of a Hearm-saat Remedy that Is Restoring Palien Men to Usefulness. Plymouth Institute Sights. He who chauges a confirmed Inebriate Into a reputable, rational, self-respect-ing member oi society is worthy to take rank among the greatest benefactors of mankind. For his good work not only restores-to usefulness a man whose time, energy and .opportunities have been worse than mis-spent, but he confers the boon of peace to many homes, the har« binger of joy to many bruised hearts. Just such a benefactor appears to be Dr. T. A. Borton of Warsaw, Ind., and in the work of redeeming fallen men he has earned a heavenly crown of glory. Of-scores of suffering persons, who have sought him out, not one has failed to find complete and permanent relief, not one has relapsed into the drinking habit, an unbroken record of cures that has nowhere been equalled. The “Borton Cure,” as it is becoming to be widely known, depends entirely for its reputation upon the unsought and willing testimony of those who have experienced the treatment. No attempt has been made to acquaint the public with its merits, and it might almost entirely have failed to attract the attention of newspaper readers but for the fact that certain clergymen, who visited the doctor at his office, felt impelled to send to the Chicago Interior and other religious papers some accounts of the astonishing things they had witnessed.

Dr. Borton says of the cure that Its discovery is the result of a lonir and patient study of the phenomena presented by the drinking habit, made for no other purpose than to find relief for certain noble and afflicted fellow-citizens of Plymouth, Ind., where he had practiced his profession for thirty-two years before remoying to Warsaw. Among the earliest treated was a Plymouth butcher, whose shop was in a basement under a saloon. This mas is a jolly German who drank for social reasons until the disease of alcoholism had mastered him. He has been completely and permanently cured to the astonishment and delight of his family and friends. Just around the corner from the butcher is a shoemaker, who had regularly spent his hard earnings over the bar until his family was in sore distress. He had promised reformation again and again but as often had fallen. He came to Dr. Borton many months ago and soon the old desire for liquor was supplanted by a detestation that he eloquently expresses to all who will crossj the street from the Plymouth Postoffice and enter his neat and busy workshop. A brilliant telegraph operator had lost his place through drinking and had become almost a tramp. He was cured and last week he visited Warsaw with his happy bride, proud to show to her the man who had redeemed him.

These cases had been multiplied into scores before Dr. Borton was willing to permit the use of his name in connection with the cure. He wanted first to satisfy himself that he could, with an abiding confidence, announce to fallen men that there was relief at last at hand that would be effectual in all stages of the drinking habit. His general practice was large and very rer.umerative but victims of intemperance soon presented themselves in such number that he could not fail to extend to them all the Christian sympathy and medical aid that would surely lift them out of bondage into a life of hope and joy. The story is almost told. Since the beginning of the present year he has consented to devote all of his time, all of his skill, all of his effort to this heartwork of rescuing fallen men. What will be his reward he cannot say, but if/ the abandonment of his general practice will enable him to enlarge the usefulness of his cure, if many more shall be led' from paths that take hold on death to take their places again among their fellow men, their appetite for liquor gone and full of the ambition of their youth, an ample reward will come in the blessings of redeemed men, in tho joy of families restored to happiness and in the love of children whose fathers have been, newborn into lives of affection. No man’s monument will be higher, none more enduring. The citizens cf Warsaw have known of Dr, Borton and his work for a long time, and they are in hearty sympathy with him. The best homes in the city are thrown open for the reception of his patients and every effort is made to surround them with influences of the right sort. They come to him in various conditions and if they are nervous he supplies them with pure Bourbon whisky without the least fear of prolonging their sprees, for the appetite for liquor never outlasts the second or third day of treatment. It yields and for the first time in years the drinking man finds, to his great joy, that he cares for liquor no more. After that his stay at Warsaw becomes a pleasant relaxation from business cares. He presents himself to Lr. Borton four times a day for treatment and spends the rest of his time in the charming paras, on the beaut ful streets or on the three lakes which almost touch the city. In summer he is welcomed in tho pretty cottages by the lakes, he may skim over the waters in one of the graceful steamers, bend his back in rowing or while away the lazy hours in fishing. In whatever relaxation he may engage he is sure to go to his home with pleasant memories of the pretty, hospitable lakecity, and of the Christian gentleman who presides at the Plymouth Institute, as Dr. Borton calls his sanitarium. It should be added that Warsaw is situated at the crossing of the Pittsburgh. Fort Wayne and Chicago railway, and the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan railroad. It is 108 miles east of Chicago, forty miles west of Fort Wayne, and 12J miles north of Indianapolis.

T. A. BORTON, M. D.