Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-13
DRUNKENNEsS \ DISEASE.
How its Cured by pr. KeeIey.

How it is Cured by pr. kceley.
 John Gilmer Speed in Harper's Weekly.l
 In a little town in Illinois called Dwight, on the Chicago and Alton railroad, there has lived and practiced his profession for twenty-five years past a certain Dr. Kee- ley. The world at large has heard little of him until recently, but during all his pro- fessional career he has enjoyed the respect and confidence of his neighbors, and has been member in good standing of the county and state societies which determine those ethical questions which appear to be of more significance 10 medical men than to those in other learned professions. He has long been engaged upon investigations as to the cure of drunkenness, and, it is said, these studies have been but contin- nation of those made by his father and grandfather in the same direction. For several years past the newspapers in the neighborhood of Dr. Keeley's home have contained more or less full accounts of his having cured by the use of double chloride of gold men who had long been regarded as hopeless drunkards.
 Something like year ago MT. Joseph Medill, the venerable editor of the Chicago Tribune, had his attention attracted to this new method of treatment, and he had an examination made of it. What he learned influenced him to make a practical test of the alleged cnres. lie therefore selected several men in Chicago who were looked upon as hopelessly addicted to the habit of drinking liquor excessively, and who also appeared to be wrecked by this long con ned intemperance. These he sent to md apr-aT,al sn rhzSr while undergoing treatment The result was so satisfactory to him that he endorsed the methods employed by Dr. Keeley in an editorial article in his paper. Naturally enough this endorsment, a most unusual thing from n paper of the class of the Chi cago Tribune, attracted very general atten- tion, and soon afterwards there was a tide of patients turned towards the little will lage of Dwight, whither hopeless men travelled in search of something which be- fore had seemed beyond their reach.
 Arrived at Dwight, these pilgrims found a struggling village, with muddy or dusty streets, according to the prevalence of rain or sunshine, and there was only one thing to make it seem different from any other western village in which twelve hundred persons had their homes. This difference was noted almost at once. There were | well-dressed and well-appeariDg men on | the streets in conslderaOle numbers Who | evidently had never taken any active part in village life, and who were not now of it. These were the pilgrims, these the patients, who had gone to see whether the bichloride of gold treatment could quench their fiery | thirst.
 The impulse which each new patient | brings with him, it is said, is to conceal | his identity; but as there are men from all parts of the country there-and this is but | a very small world, after all, as every man who has travelled away from home has found out-this concealment is all but i'm possible, and the great majority are soon content to settle down, and, acknowledg- ing to themselves that their inebriety is a | disease which they as sensible men are try ing their best to cure, each in his own per
 sonality, and with whatever weight that may add to his words, tries to encourage
 the newcomer, and to contribute his best
 to the fellowship and comradeship of the
 community. And, singularly enough,
 these patients, once dismissed as cured,
 never, it is claimed, make any effort to
 conceal the fact that they have been treat
 ed at Dwight for inebriety. The idea
 among them seems to be that this form of