Like fever and ague, dipsomania has its periodic attacks. Every d linking man gets inordinately rum-thirsty so many times a day, varying greatly in individuals. To reduce these periods of fever is the first aim. This is done by classifying the patients and keeping them so as to be within convenient reach at the^ critical periods ; and pro viding some off-take that diverts their minds till the yum fever is tided over ; so that a 6th drink man becomes en titled by and by to class as a 3rd drink, and finally, as safe for total abstinence, so long as the smell of the liquor and the old jolly-companionship be not together paraded temptingly before him. A high premium should be required to assure salvation under such ticklish tantalization. No pledge of temperance is exacted. The man's reason is appealed to exclusively. The training effects a greab deal. It frees him from the slavery of habit. He feels better for the emancipation, and he is put upon his manhood to resist new temptations, which he knows must lead to ruin of body and mind, os. w«ll as to social degradation. Upon tFie whole the institution is a successful reformatory. May heaven bless its good endeavours.
Dr. Dodge has gone to England by invitation of aComuiittee'of Parliament, to explain its process and to advocate its adoption in Great Britain.
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