The sun., 1891-06-25
HELP FOR THE HELPLESS.
DIR. KEELEY's 1REA TMENT OF OPIUM
EATERS IND DRUNKARDS

He Says That He Can Cut Short the worst
Spree In Two Hours without Causing n
Nervous shock, and Can Eject Com.
piete Cure I'm Th NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. rec e mia
DR.. Leslie L. Keeley OF Dwight Institute. at
Dwight. ILL.,, arrived in New York on Tuesday
and put up at the Fifth Avenue HOTEL He
sailed with Capt. Dec LARGO Wilson on the City
OF Paris ON Wednesday for Liverpool. DR.. Kse-
ley will make two months pleasure trip
through the United Kingdom and the Con-
tinent. He will visit all the principal cities OF
Europe. and will return late in September
| DR.. keeley is the man who has caused a
revolution in the treatment OF those afflicted
with drunkenness and the opium habit. He is
equally well known for his proficiency in the
trentman OF those seriously afflicted with
| ncrye exhaustion. He il biG-boned man.
| with white hair and moustache.
His manners arc these OF n man who never
had a nervous moment in his life. He puffsd
| cigar during his talk with Sun reporter. He
said that Senators. Congressmen. authors. cd.
| itors, actors, and mechanics had been treated
successfully ut tho Dwight Institute.
Many women also had been treated. and
| there were now 1924 patients nt the Institute.
| He has lett ihem In charge Of four competent
PHYSICIANS and general manager.
The Doctor. in speaking Of his treatment
called 1t the double chloride OF gold treatment
Nup'' NlISOu NlL ps6lu0 ulL1 Us 10 thlkeu anu
nodded his head in sutstantiution Of all that
! wns snid
Il will take any drunka,d." said the Doctor.
who for twenty years has been debauched
md sot'ieu and will make him sober in nn
hour. will cut short his wors. spree in two
hour. I will take him from sodden ine-
briefly TO perfect sobriety without ncr-
vous shock or distress. At the end
Of thrco days he will be antipathetic to
alcoholic stimulants Of every sort. Meantime
viii give him all the liquor he nsks for. with
the confident assurance that he will give it up
OF his own voition from SO to iS hours after be-
ing put under treatment He will drop 1t and
mover touch 1t again from desire while life lrsts.
and II lie ever goes hack to his cups he will
do 1t with dcliberniion aud not because liquor
is necessity or temptation. will do moro
for n liduor habi,ui in three weeks than can
be done .or him elsewhere on tho fnce Of tho
globe. / will give him n cure. cure that will
come to him like o tenedction from God
without aid or effort on his part. will place
him back where he was Letore he over drank
drop OF liquor. I will put him back, in fact
TO his early boyhood days.
II deny the belief In hereditary drunken
ness; in fact. claim that heredity gives re-
sis,ance. H. for instance. q certain number OF
strong. hearty Indians. who had never touched
liquor, received an equal chance with the same
number OF EnGlishmen. whose parents had
drunk heavily, through the generations. #
WY; For the reason that The constant drinking
resistance to the poison OF alcohol which the
Ind ans, nnaccnstomel TO the habit: did not
auirsd or cni,iva,cd disease. and. although
there may be an alcoholic predispositon. yet
W. are living in n neurostben;o apa such
a one as has not been since ,ne foununton OF
the world. Nenrastnenia. or nerve exhaus;
ihink. 1t manifests itself IN irritabity. in
s"mnia lack OF energy and cher kindred
nursues ali Glasses of brain workers, and over
takes them when they are seemingly safest.
recren ion ami what they call iess from labor.
Otne : take refuge in suicide and still other.
aSor and wSsss Ss s Tsfs
bridcinR-nver features. All who follow them
h5 or fdi hsf pe Wsea wse
co,ies or stimulants.
This neurasthena is a disease Of the nerve
the mind is in luli sympathy. and always like |
I'M old wound. leaves a scar when bensl. |
all cases OF nenras,henia. Yet 1 know OF no |
better trsnlment in tie world.
cbeG ga s'a en1 s VIII
that habit, have u different preparation. with |
Ss a tho es Opium q hat s maas
under my Pei sonal care in from eight 10 |
twenty days. and so easily and gen ly |
that tho patients scarcely know they
their homes entirely cured. Thes. patients.
willie under treatment. are never of thoir feet
except Tor natural rest. They eat end sleep
well while under treatme I. and when they
leave are stronger aud henrtier and. as u rule
weigh much more han when they began the
have sos men and women come
to me who had daily for years taken rom Sky
t. 100 grains hypodermcrlly. and they have
been easily cured in three weeks
This Rtntement applies 10 women as well. l
do not consider any man bl, who has
suffered Tor twenty ears from tho ouum or
liquor disease II he have no brain lesion. Any
man can he cured in three weeks and any
woman. inside Of four weeks. Capt. Wilson
here. who has been mt Dwight saws that nv
cure is u marvel to all who know
OF II. and particularly so 20 physicians.
whose patrons conn rise 81 nor cent.
has often remarked one could scarcely feel
could he see tho r?or. helpless, and hopeless.
wrecks OF humanity who come to Dwight AMI
who leave Mt the end OF three weeks. re-
newed and redeemed. ready to take up the
burden OF ii IL where they had laid 1t down
long ago and carry IL TO the end I n sobriety."
DR.. hcsiey has es n hishcd an institute at
White Plains and in Philadelphia. When he
returns he will establish ono in New Jersey.