It may be stated, with perfect confidence, that there is no medicine or combination of medicines that will cure a person of the habit of drunkenness; that is, that will destroy his or her habit or appetite for alcoholic liquors. It may be stated with equal positiveness that there is no habit, whether of chloral, opium, hashish, or any other intoxicating substance, that can be cured by medicine; and even further, that there is no habit or appetite whatever to which mankind is subject that can be got rid of by drugs, whether it be drinking coffee, or smoking tobacco, or taking a walk every day at a particular hour, or going to bed at a certain time. —
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It may be stated, with perfect confidence, that there is no medicine...
From the April 1893 issue of The Christian Science Journal
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