The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-03
that Oncs tis Was q Victim Of Aloo-.
hol, But Is Not
Now.
Instance OF the Marvellous Cures
Effected at Dwight, by
ID. Koeley.
Mis- willard Not Jealous or tho Work
81 That Noted Experimentation
or Prohibitionists.

3# IN = UUlN, bb0KAuy uuy III 80 @EAAN
alightel from the cars q Thousand miles
from home, and mnde my way through q
shower Of sleet to the bare and gloomy
hotel Of d little prairie village in Illinois,
writes John Flavel Mines ('Felix Oldboy")
IN the North American Review. ! had
started on a voyage Of discovery for the
fountain Of renewed youth and restored
manhood, against the persuasion OF friends
who wished me to wait and see how others
fared; in the tooth Of physicians who told
mo that it was a deception and an old
dream revamped; and in opposition TO the
medical superintendent Of . fashionable
.shome,'' who insisted that / would be
throwing away my money, ] went my way
alone, without faith, but with a tiny spark
kindled in my breast, not knowing what
would befall me at Dwight. What I saw,
heard and experienced there is the best OF
all arguments for the treatment OF the al
coholic appetite as a disease and for belief
in it's cure.
For twenty years T had been a victim to
the disease Of drink. II seized me ut odd
times, usually tho most inopportune, and
il spite Of all my struggles would gain the
temporary mastery. Months OF pence
might pass, but suddenly tho fever would
break loose and run riot in my veins, and |
knew then that it must have it's course. |
have as much will power as the next man,
but my will was a straw in the grasp OF this
horror. Men who have not felt the clutch
of drink rs it sweeps through and possesses
the whole system have no conception. OF
the agony Of the struggle which the victim
makes. It WAS because / had found no per-
manent beneftfrom seclusiOn in an asylum
or homo, but rather the contrary. because
/ fretted against the restraint that
could be OF no use to q PERIOD
ioal drinker,. that was ready
By Dr.. Leslie e. Kelley, Of Dwight, that he
would guarantee mo q cure tor my disease.
I told him that for moro than two months
my life had been one Of entire sobrlety,
and asked him # he would undertake my
cure under these circumstances. he replied
that he would. Il was something: OF an
assurance to find that his experience Of
thirty years an a medical man, and for
twenty years as a specialist in alcoholism,
coinoided with my experience as 9 suHerer.
His ideas we're My own
diagnosis told me that my trouble was a
disease, and I felt that il was an insult TO
medical science to suppose for q moment
that no remedy could be found for it. Dr.
Kelley laid down the laws that | must fol
low. the time that must stay, and insisted,
as he does in all cases, on unquallhed
obsdience while in his hands.
Tho patients drst visit is paid to the office
of DR.. Kelley, whore his case is stated, and
whore he receives a hypodsrmio injection n
the upper left arm, and there is given to
him q bottle OF the biohlorids Of gold mix
ture. 4 dose Of which ii to be taken every
two hours while awake. The hypodcrmic,
called in Dwight tho shot" is the supports
ing medicine, which sustains the frame I'M
form in which the bichloride Of gold is
made up for its special purpose, are DIR.
Keeley'a secret, and it is manifostly absurd
for those not in the secret to pretend to
%critioise it. The treatment is administered
four times a day, at eight 9: ~, y noon, i've
s. n. and 1880 p. M, and for three or four
weeks usually, though sometimes q week OF
two Longer. according to the r%ersonal
diagnosis made by the doctor from
day TO day. Il q new arrival i needs 9
bottle, and he can have more until his
palate loathes it and he returns his I'M
opened bottle to the doctor. From thls
point the work of physical reconstruction
begins. He finds that the itreat'ment is not
a mere tonic, as some have supposed
Sometimes his eyesight is affected, but only
for d few days, III some cases the memory
il temporarily Weakened; in every case nc
becomes conscious of n feeling OF lassitude
and indifference to the outside world, az
his frame, and purides and builds them up
into new strength. Nor is this all. Ihe
treatment at Dwight removes such physical
ills as are caused directly by drink. Dr
Keeley's programme promised this, but !
had scarcely been able to credit it. AS 8
matter Of fact, I found myself relieved OF
evenly pounds Of superfluous flesh, and am
the better for it.
The physical experience varies in differ
ent cases, but to each there comes at last {
time whom the patient discovers that a!
weakness and depression have vanished
and that tho fotters Of old appetltes ane
habits have fallen ava from him, ant
when he steps out Of the darkness Of the
wilderness into the full light of day ane
knows that once more he has q man.
strength to do Il mans work among mon
AS I stood in line, I said to DR.. Kelley: :.
am glnd that I came at this time. / thinl
have hit on one Of my periodical attacks
for I feel 80 blue and wtetched that if !;
we're in New York ] should YIELD and drink;
him?' "Of course not,'' I said, lido no
intend to drink, but ] Thought it right t.
tell you the symphonic He bade me wal
until the line Of patients had gone through
office, poured out nearly half {
water added, md said, ,Drinl
i'll" What is it?' Iasked.. "No matter
was the reply, drink it.' 7 drank hnlf Q!
it and said. "Why, it's whisky" "Drinl
it ail,'' said DR.. Ka'sley. when you neet
whisky, / would. a. readily give you TIM
us anything. else / drank, went to din,
ner, went walking i'll the afternoon, nnS
never thought of it again until went bnol
to tho office at the regular hour. Nor dit
/ want any more, nor want to take the two
ounc bottle OF whisky which was handed
nc at noon next day. with injunctions 4
take the dose in about twenty minutes
That was the end of my drinking and al
that hns pnssed my lips since the 31st d..
Of January. Formerly n drink OF whisk.
,unuld hnrn sat NV hrnin on fire. and in nj