Los Angeles herald., 1891-11-11
THE GREAT CURER OF DIPsoMANIA.


THE GRBAT CURER OF DIPsoMANIA.
DR.. LeslieE. Kelley has returned from
Europe, after a three-months' visit, in
which he made close observations of the
drink habit in all the leading countries.
He found drunkenness rife in the sea-
port cities and in all England and Scot
land. In the wine countries there is
very little. In Italy light wines are
commonly used, and he found no mani
fest drunkenness in the kingdom. His
conclusion is that "the constant use of
light wines seems to give the people
power of resistance against stronger
drinks" In Germany drunkenness had
become go general that the most severe
laws had been passed to meet the evil.
The consequence is that not go much
drunkenness is now observable in public
as formerly. Excessive beer guzzling
takes the place in great measure OF
strong liquor drinking. He says that
he himself saw one young man in Berlin
drink nine liters of beer in an hour, and
he heard that it was no great feat for
seasoned student to get away with
twenty or thirty liters in an evening. A
liter is about equivalent to our quart.
But he found England and Scotland
to be the worst countries for drunk
enness in all his travels. Peo-
pie in all stages of intoxication are
seen everywhere and at all times
in England. "But Scotland" he says,
"was by far the worst country visited.
There drunkenness is rather virtue
than vice." This is pretty severe on
the Gland O. cakes" But if DR.. Kelley
only judges of Scotland by the drunken
saturnalia he witnessed in Glasgow on
the Saturday night he got there, he
will do the people generally of that
country an injustice. Glasgow Satur-
day nights are proverbially bacchana-
liam.
1t will astonish the ordinary reader to
learn from DIR. Kelley that Ireland was
the best country he visited as far as the
vice of drunkenness is concerned.
The doctor was asked by Chicago
reporter if he thought about making
his formula for the cure of drunkenness
public. He said he had; but he con-
sideled it unfair to urge him to do so.
He then related that while he was in
Berlin he visited the house where DR..
Koch lives. He found it cold, deserted
and desolate. The doctor had retired
to the country heartbroken, Inundated,
ruined. The same public, whose clamor
had forced him to give his formula pre-
maturely to the profession, has hunted
him out OF the city because his lymph,
in the hands of experimental physicians
and quacks, had not met the expecta-
lions that had been prematurely raised
of its virtues. He said:
"Berlin became mandatory of
Koch's lymph. Visiting doctors took
away with them everything that was
called 'Koch's lymph OF course it
advertised them largely when they re-
turned home; it brought them newspa-
per notices, and when the failure was
announced they had the pleasure OF
seeing their names in the leading jour
nails of the country as authority for
prophesylng that the lymph would be
failure. j regard Koch's discovery as
the .grandest thing for the benefit of
mankind since the days of Christ; yet it
is lost to the world for the reason that
Koch has retired from the field, and
with him the master hand that guided
the great work. All effort is lost and
the great man has nothing to expect
from the future. He is like hunted
creature in his country home, with
none SO poor as to do him reverence
1t is not my intention that my remedy
shall share The same fate. ! look upon
it as Entrusted to me by Almighty God
for the benefit of mankind, and, as such,
1 will administer it. There are now
twenty-four Kelley institutes in the
United States, and they are all doing
well. All of them are crowded with pa
tients, and we will increase the number
of Institutes to satisfy the public needs
as fast as they can be established. 10
give my remedy into the hands OF mex
perienced doctors, druggists and drug
clerks would be simply to invite such
fate as has befallen Koch. Every learn
ed doctor would sit in Judgment over it,
+ add to it or take from it, or even, per-
haps, substitute properties, with the idea
that he could make it better. Druggists
would put it up to suit themselves, and
then, of course, it would be failure"
AS an instance OF the pro clivity OF
human nature to decry anything that
has been signally successful, we see it
in the way in which the recent death OF
DIR. Milne has been held up to the world
as an evidence that the Kelley cure is
humbug. DR.. Milne had a most cleveriy-
written article in the October North
American Review on the efficacy OF the
Keeley cure. He had been habitual
drunkard Of long standing. After
course of treatment at the Dwight estab-
lishment, he came out cured of the hab-
IL. as he said and firmly believed
himself. He soon afterwards, however,
had a relapse and took to drink again,
diving miserably in his last debauch.
This instance has been seized upon to