Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — AN OPIUM EATER’S STORY. [ARTICLE]

AN OPIUM EATER’S STORY.

Crawling Over Ked-Hot Bars of Iron In His Fearful Freusy—A Scientific Investigation and Its Kesnlts. / Cincinnati Tima-Star. “Opium or death!” , '. This brief sentence wu fairly Hissed into the ear of a prominent druggist on Vine street by a person who, a few years ago well off, is to-day a hopeless wreck. One can scarcely realize the sufferings of an opium victim. De Quiuoey has vivialv portrayed it But who can fitly describe the joy of the rescued victim? FL 0. Wilson, of Loveland, 0., formerly with March, Harwood 4 Co., manufacturing chemists of St Louis, and of the well-known firm of H. 0. Wilson A Co., chemists, formerly of this city, gave our reporter yesterday a bit of thrilling personal experience in this line. “I have crawled over red hot bars of iron and coals of fire,” he said, “in my agony durLing an opium frenzy. The very thought of my sufferings freezes ’my blood and chills my bones. I was then eating over 30 grains of opium daily.” “How did you contract the habit?” “Excessive business cares broke me down and my doctor prescribed opium! That is tho way nine-tenths of cases commence. When I determined to stop, however, I found I could not do it.' “You may be surprised to know,” he said, “that two-fifths of the slaves of morphine and opium are physicians. Many of these I met We studied our cases carefully. We found out what the organs were in which the appetite was developed and sustained; that no victim was free from a demoralized condition of these organs; that the hope of a cure depended entirely upon the degree of vigor which could be imparted to them. I have seen patients, while undergoing treatment, compelled to resort to opium again to deaden the horrible pain in those organs. I marvel how I ever escaped. ” “Do you mean to say, Mr. Wilson, that you have conquered the habit?” “Indeed 1 have.” “Do you object to telling me how?” “No, sir. < Studying the matter with several opium-eating physicians, we became satisfied that the appetite'for opium was located in the kidneys ana liver. Ournext object was to find a specific for restoring those organs to health. The physicians, much against their code, addressed their attention to a certain remedy and became thoroughly convinced on its scientific merits alone that it was the only one that could be relied upon in every case of disordered kidneys and liver. I thereupon began using it and, supplementing it with my own special treatment, finally got fully over the habit I may say that the most important part of the treatment is to get those organs first into good ■ working condition, for in them the appetite' originates and is sustained, and in them over ninety per cent of all other human ailments originate. “For the last seven years this position has been taken by the proprietors of that remedy, and finally it is becoming an acknowledged scientific truth among the medical profession; many of them, however, do not openly acknowledge it, and yet, knowing they have no other scientific specific, their code not allowing them to use it, they buy it upon the quiet and prescribe it in tjiejr own bottles.”' “As I said before, the opiuriT and morphine habits can never be cured until the appetite for them is routed out of the kidneys and liver. I have tried everything,—experimented with everything, and as the result of my studies and investigation, I can say I know nothing can accomplish this result but Warner's safe cure.” “Have others tried your treatment?” “Yes, sir, many; and all who have followed it fully have recovered. Several of them who did not first treat their kidneys and liver for six or eight weeks, as I advised them, completely failed. This form of treatment is always insisted upon for all patients, whether treated by mail or at the Loveland Opium Institute, and supplemented by our special pri.vate treatment, it always cures.” Mr. Wilson stands very high wherever known. His experience is only another proof of the wonderful and conceded power of Warner’s safe cure over all diseases of the kidneys, liver, and blood, and the diseases cause 1 by - derangements of these organs. We may say that it is very flattering to the proprietors of Warner’s safe cure that it has received the highest medical indorsement, and, after persistent study, it is admitted by scientists that there is nothing in materia medica for the restoration of those groat organs that equals it in power. We hike pleasure in publishing the above statements coming from so reliable a source as Mr. Wilson and confirming by personal experience what we have time and again published in our columns. We also extend to the proprietors our hearty congratulatioifS on the results wrought.