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Cure for Drunkenness.
To the Editor of the N. Y. Tribune.
SIR: I have copied this "Cure for Drunkenness" from another print, and send it to you with the request that you will publish it in THE TRIBUNE, for the benefit of all victims to this prevalent vice.
New-York, July 22, 1865.

There is a famous prescription in use in England for the cure of drunkenness, by which thousands are said to have been assisted in recovering themselves. The prescription came into notoriety through the efforts of John Vine Hall, commander of the Great Eastern steamship. He had fallen into such habitual drunkenness that his most earnest efforts to reclaim himself proved unavailing. At length he sought the advice of an ancient physician, who gave him a prescription which he followed faithfully for seven months. At the end of that time he had lost all desire for liquor, although he had many times been led captive by a most debasing appetite.
The prescription, which he afterward published, and by which so many other drunkards have been assisted to reform, is as follows:
Sulphate of iron, five (5) grains; magnesia, ten (10) grains; peppermint water, eleven (11) drachms; spirit of nutmeg, one (1) drachm; twice a day.
This preparation acts as a tonic and a stimulant, and so partially supplies the place of the accustomed liquor, and prevents that absolute physical and moral prostration which follows a sudden breaking off from the use of stimulating drinks.