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DRINK CURES.
Tito question of "tiring cures," to
which special interest lias been lent in
Australia during tho past week by the
cabling of information from London ns
to tho wonderful success of the “ Nor
myl ” method of treatment, is attract
ing a vast amount of attention in Eng
land from various aspects. “There are”
(writes the London correspondent of the
“Age”) “several of these cures run on
purely commercial lines, which advertise
their wares in tho ordinary way, but
they nro, of course, distrusted as quacks
'by tho medical profession, hut outsido
these it has bccomo the fashion for weal
thy philanthropists to tako up a drink
cure, and place it within the roach of
nil. Tans Sir Alfred Ilarmsworth 1ms
got hold of a new remedy, discovered by a
Canadian, callol ‘Nonnyl.’ Its compo
sition is secret; nil wo are told is that
its base is a plant, possessing wonderful
medicinal qualities, hitherto known ouly
to tho lied Indians of North America.
Homes arc to bo established for the ad
ministration of Nonnyl, which is purely
nn internal remedy, and many cures are
claimed for it. Tho advocates of tho
hypodermic school of treatment arc no
less active. Mr. Kowntree, of chocolate
fame lia3 taken over entirely the house
at Norwood. Hero the atropine
incut, by injoctiou, which lias undoubt
edly worked many cures, is to bo con
tinued under tho supervision of a com
mitleo composed of leading medical men.
Further, it is proposed to establish
homes for tho poor, where patients can
livo ut cost prico until cured. And us
nil trace of commercialism has now been
removed from this cure, it c*Pfctc,‘;
that v o medical profession will Like it
up enthusiastically, and wend their al
coholic’ patients for tho institutional
treatment, which, ns experience him
proved, ia neceasary in the mujbrity of
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