Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-15
THE CHARM OF GOLD,
Under Keeley's Magic Touch
1t Drives Away the
Taste fer Alcohol.
EXPERIENCE OF A PATIENT
Who Gave the New Remedy for Dip
somania an Intelligent Test
1T is AN HEROIC TREATMENT.
Violent Results Succeeded BY Feeling of
Luxurious Ease
WILL POWER AND A PERMANENT CURE
EXPERIENCE OF A PATIENT
IT is AN HEROIC TREATMENT.
Violent Results Succeeded by Feeling of
Luxurious Ease
WILL POWER AND A PERMANENT CURE
WRITTEN FOE THE pIsPArcH.i

WRITTEN FOE THE DIsPATCH.i
As one Of the many men who have passe
through the Kelley treatment for the ban
ishment of the drink habit, with the resul
of gaining cure, though still remaining ad
dicted to the habit of writing for the pres
(both periodically and regularly I feel it N,
duty to push my pen, once at least, upol
this subject of wide and widening interest
Of earnest and increasing inquiry.
My mental attitude in regard to the cur
is, I think, conservative one, though tn,
reader may be impressed to the contrary
vhen, after constraining myself to the forego
Ing statement, i say in the same sentence tina
am convinced the cure is the greatest o
mans miracles in modern times-snd tha
is equivalent to saying in all time.
If any reader is disposed to criticise thess
apparently somewhat conflicting statements
let him remember that the whole rum sub
tect inclusive of the cure is full of apparent
psradoxes of startling strangeness, and tha,
there Is no subject on earth, every day
thrust conspicuously before the people fol
their study and understanding on which
such general, widespread and absolute igno.
rance prevails If am convicted, or even
suspected or charged, with the smallest frac-
tion of this ignorance, 1 can only say "a
thousand thanks, kind friends; appreciate
the compliment
Doesn't Care to Learn Any More,
I have learned something Of drink by 20
years travel (and several of tra-
vaiD with it, and now that
II has bumped me up against the Kelley
cure and 1 have found good chance to
quit sliding down hill in its slippery, Sc
ductive company, and to stop and stay on
firm ground with good friends, don't
care TO 60 back along the road to learn any
thing about il that may have missed NY
case was one Of long standing, involving at
different periods alcoholism, or regular
drinking, and dipsomania or periodical
drinking, and the two in conjunction
pinnacles of periodical excess built upon an
extended elevated plateau as it were of
regular artificial alcoholic elation-wjth,
Of course, both deep pitfalls and depressed
plains occasionally intervening.
1 selected as the place for undergoing
treatment the Pittsburg Institute, 3S11,
Fifth avenue, and took to DR.. w. j.
Estep, who is in charge, q robust appetite
frsyed fringe, so to speak, of q once strong
constitution, and not much in addition to
this but quite resolute will to hold N.Y.
self, if possible, in condition receptive to
the treatment and to profit bv it to the ut.
most grain, so far as It lay within my power
will add one thing more in regard to my
especial case, for its possible value to some
who may read this story, and then have
done, hope, with the personal pronoun
Not the Result Of . Spree.
My resolution to take the treatment had
been long in forming, but once formed was
never abandoned, and though the carrying
out of the purpose was considerably de-
layed, the final step was taken unquickened
by the sting of an immediate incentive in
the form of any physical suffering or men,
tai revulsion following an indulgence
I had not tasted liquor for so days prior to
nv course at the institute, nor
did at any time during treatment, mere
third week, informing me much to nv as
constituent that didn't really care to let
the stuff further invade nv improved old
time "copper" lined" but now, perhaps,
gold lined department of the interior
In this respect-entering upon treat
ment without presenting any immediate
effects of drink-not at all in my usual
spirits-a condition which can claim no
credit for whatever, but state simply
as fact, 1 found that I was
3 rare, though not uri lue examI lie.
Among about 40 men undergoing treatment
all but two (and several men addicted to
1rugs) had begun while more or less under
the influence of liquor, varying all the way
very little and very much, and in
most cases the effect was the painful
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terrific third degree of torture which had
spurred the resolution of the sufferer to
AXE the decisive step.
Effects in the Two Cases
The effect of the treatment is dissimilar in |
he two kinds of cases. In that of the man |
Fho comes with no immediate drink effect |
% be cured, the sickness caused is usually |
light, but the various discomforts expert |
enced are probably longer continued than |
n the other cases. The man who has no /
.cute case of disease, nc Immediately taken |
liquor, with which the medicine is to engage
q combat and to eliminate from the system. |
yets the full force of the treatment upon /
he chronic disease with no waste of his
three or four weeks time (paid for I
It SIS per week, besides board and perhaps
xtras) while the medicine is employed in
elieving him Of his acute disease-his i'm
Mediate "load."
The removal of this load causes quite a
ensstion and it undoubtedly has therapeu-
ic effect through the strong impression it
makes upon the mind Of the patient Very
likely this fully compensates for the loss of |
ime devoted to the acute condition.
nd in many cases i know the men,
al effect produced is exceedingly salutary.
here is quite q popular notion among
'etients that the surety of the cure is de.
'endent upon and, in very close proportion
o, the violence of the sickness and that
here is no cure whatever without il. This
5, of course, superficial reasoning, illogical
nd unphysiological, but perhaps comfort
ng to many whom retching made
7retched
BichIoride OF Gold or of Mud.
AS to the method of treatment it is not
ecessary to say much at this time because
. has been so often described. Every pa
lent on entering the institute is given q
ottle of medicine, and instructed in the
natter of taking it (or if he needs assist
nee it is administered to him). He is to
axe a teaspoonful, or a drachm, in two
uuces of water every two hours during the
ay and evening while awake, and at 8 A.
L, u p NJ, p. N. and 7:30 p. NJ. he is to
resent himself in the treatment room for
is hypodermic injection, or "shot," as II
popularity called. In addition to this
he patient is given whisky, if he needs or
emands il, and if his nerves are in bad
Ondition from recent excess is ''let down
asy." There are, of course, adjuncts of
ne treatment to meet individual peculiari-
es, as the giving of sleeping medicine,
&C.
The giving of the hypodermics to 40 men
ecupies about ten minutes. The patients,
lch with the left shirt sleeve rolled up
nd with slit cut in the undershirt, march
single file by the physician and his
'sistants, and each in turn receives o