Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-01
Is DRUNKENNESS CURABLEG

having been cured of their appetite foI
strong drink. The tncreiulity Of reg
ular" physicians in regard to any cures
effected through the means Of patent
medicines is well known, but if we take
the testimony Of those who have ben
Gifted by them we must accept the evil
dence. IfDr. LESLIE E. KELLEY has dis
covered such an important thing as a
cure for drunkenness by treating it as a
disease why should he not be protected as
well as the man who takes out a patent?
DR.. KEEIEY's carping critics say that if
there is really any virtue In his cure
he should make no secret of it.
but publish it to the world. That is es-
sentially matter forDr. KELLEY himself
to decide. The important thing is, will
his medicine heal? He claims that o5
per cent Of his patients are reclaimed
| This is a wonderful record but if through
the instrumentality Of his bichlOride Of
gold discovery even one man is reclaimed
out Of one hundred and restored to his
manhood, and a once desolate home
made happy, is that not q great achieve
ment?
JOHN FLAvEL MINES, brilliant Gu-
thor who has written under the non de
plume Of Felix Oldboy, has a graphic
account Of his experiences in the Octo-
Der number OF the North AmericaR Re
uiclr. He was suffering from periodical
indulgence in the appetite for drink.
/ He had tried everything that could be
suggested. He had been treated at
"homes" for sufferers from the liquor
habit, but without success. As last
hope he turned his face toward Dwight,
III. He says:
1T was because I had found no per-
manent benefit from SeclusiOn In an
asylum or home, but rather the contra
ry, because l fretted against restraint
, that could be OF no use TO a periodical
driuker, that l was ready 90 give fair
trial 10 the promise made me by DR..
Leslie Kelley, of Dwight, that ne
would guarantee me a cure for my dis
ease. told him that for more than two
months my life had been one OF entire
sobriety, and asked him if he would I'M
dertake my cure under these circum-
stances. He replied that he would. II
was something of an assurance 10 find
that his experience Of thirty years as
medical man, and for tweAty years as
specialist I'm alcoholism, conceded with
my experience as sufferer. His ideas
were common sense. My own diagnosis
told me that my trouble was a disease,
aud felt that 10 was an insult TO medi-
cal science 20 suppose for moment that
no remedy could be found for &c. re-
called my own experience with chillS
and fever. One autumn day in 1S4S my
Stepm0tuer asked me why ] did not keep
my telth st,l. ] told her that i could
not help it," Itwas q chill and q violent
fever followed. This took place in our
home on st. Johns Park in this
city. AfJerward had chillS
at0 school, in college, in the
army, and 40 last, I'm May, 1865, on the
very first day l took charge of daily
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chill, and then the attacks came on
every day. L had taken quinine for
twenty years, and was weary of 10. So
went TO q distinguished homeopathic
physician in Albany, an old friend of
my father, and asked him if he could
eradicate the disease. He promised TO
do So If 1 would strictly obey his or
ders and not stop taking medicine until
he said so. I promised, and for three
months took his powders OF arsenic and
copper TWEEN .y-three years have
passed and have not had q touch of the
disease since.
mention this because dipSomania az
fected me I'm precisely the same man
ner.
After describing the manner Of treat
ment followed by Or. KELLY, who,
by the way is en- allopathic physician,
Mr.. MINES gives his own peculiar eX-
Derience in the following words;
My own experience was somewhat
rare, because l went 10 Dwight free
from any direct effects of alcohol. 1
experienced 10 loss OF memory or de-
lection Of eyeSighJ, but after q week
had passed I felt that If had been
anywhere else l would have had re-
turn of the periodical appetite, and
might have yielded TO il because Of my
depression. ! remember tho terror
this feeling gave me. As I stood in
line, said 10 DR.. Kelley: Il am glad
that I came at this time. l think
that l have hit one of my
periodical attacks for l feel
SO blue and wretched that if were in
New York / should yield and drink
And the bOy;' inquired the doctor,
| looking searchingly at me; 'you
wouldn't leave him?' "Of course not"
I said; Il do not intend 70 drink, but I
thought it right TO tell you the symp-
Z toms" He babe me wait until the line
of patients had gone through their
treatment, then took me into his own
Office poured out nearly half o tumbler
of whisky, with little water added,
and said: "Drink it," 'What is it?' l
I asked. ''No matter" was the reply:
'drink it." I drank half OF it, and
| said: "Why, it's whisky" Drink
/ it ALL" said DR.. Kelley. ''When
YOU need whisky, wOuld as
/ readily give you that as any
/ thing else" / drank, went TO dinner,
went walking in the afternoon, and
never thought OF it again until 1 went
/ back TO the Office at the regular hour.
/ Nor did / want any more, nor want TO
I take the two-0unce bottle of whisky
which was handed me at noon next day
I with injunetions TO take the dose in
about twenty minutes. Thas was the
1 end Of my drinking, and all that has
passed my lips since the 3lSt day Of