The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-11-13
A CURE OF DRUNKENNESS.
Double Chloride of GOld."--A Preparation
that InfalIibiy Kills The Thirst fol-
strong Drink.

| Drunkenness is the great curse OF nations
of Anglo-SaXon, Teuton and Celtic blood, and
the American people being compound OF the
three the evil is here intensified and concen
trated. Statlstlcians declare that 10000 per
sons are killed by strong drink in the United
States alone, every year, and the question is
one OF frighttul Importance: how can this fear
full waste of human life be stoppedY 1t is
only of recent years that scientists have made
the discovery that drunkenness Is in reality a
disease. In great many cases the alcoholic
desire (or dipsomanla, rs it is termed by medl
cal men, is hereditary, being handed down
from father to son IN much the same way as
scrotulous evils are transmitted from genera
ton to generation. But how to combat this
disease has until recently batiled even the wis
est physicians, in fact 1t can be said that only
during the present year that there has been at
command any remedy that could be relied up
on. But IN April last, Fred B. Hargreaves
Vice President of the Illinois State Temper
ance League, issued little pamphlet entitled
Gold as Cure for Drunkenness" embody
ing an account of the discovery of the proper.
ties of the double chloride of gold, made by
DIR. l.. e. Kelley, of Dwight, III. DIR. Kelley
Is an old army surgeon, but Is ow surgeon OF
! the Z. IL a. H. H. at the above mentioned city
who says that his mind was first led to the
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remedial agent by quotation from work by
Paracelsus, written about 1873 in which II
was claimed that gold, the king of metals, was
and woHld be found in the coming ages, a
specific for all hereditary faint. Upon this
suggestion multitude OF experiments was
based and finally in the double chloride OF
gold was found the preparation for which man.
kind had been waiting through the ages.
But with genuine professional dislike to
anything that savors of advertising, DR.. Kee
ley hesitated long before he would consent To
make public his most marvellous discovery,
and it is to Vice President Hargreavea of the
aforementioned organization that the public
owes the fact that the preparation in question
has at last been placed within the reach of
every man who Is a slave to the demon of
strong drink. Mr.. Hargreaves gives the fol
lowing as the result of his personal observa
tions:
! Most men say they cannot break off drink
ing suddenly; DR.. Kelley does not require
them to do So they may be drunk when they
beg in taking the Gold Cure hut if they take
1t as he directs, they will find results as have
observed them in the following order, viz: In
four days the habit will be checked, in week
the desire to drink will be gone, IN nine days
1t will be impossible to take alcohol into the
system, and the manacles which have bound
| tne man lOr Ten, twenty or tnlrty years VIII DC
shattered and broken forever. No other stimu
liant will be needed to take the place of the
liquor, bat the patient will be rejuvenated and
changed as it were into new man, once more
enjoying that normal condition which nature
gives, and which dignifcs true and noble
manhood.
There has been accumulated mass of ties.
mony to the same effect which is accessible
to any person DESTROYS of investigating the
subject. T. I, Quincy Comptroller of Chca.
go, writes
LESLIE +. KELLEY, VI. d.:
Dear Sir:-Several prominent citizens of
Chicago, with whom | am acquainted have
taken your Double Chloride of Gold Cure for
drunkenness and the effects have been very re.
markable in each case. To my certain know
ledge they are each one cured by the use of
your medicine, and | do not hesitate to pro.
nounce il a great discovery 1t ought to and
will be widely and favorably known.
II. L. GURNEY
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