Cure for Drunkenness

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 30, 1879

Cure for Drunkenness.

Drunkenness in Sweden and Norway is cured in the following manner: The drunkard is put in prison, and his only nourishment is bread soaked in wine. During the first day the prisoner receives the bread and wine with pleasure. On the second day the food is not so acceptable. After that he takes his food with great repugnance. In general, eight or ten days of this treatment suffices to produce such a disgust of liquor that the unhappy man is compelled to absolute abstinence. After leaving prison, his drunkenness is radically cured, with an occasional exception, and the odor of liquor produces an invincible repulsion.