The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-10-16

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DRUNKENNESS A DISEAsE.-HOW 1T
Is CURED BY DIR. KELLEY.
In little town in Illinois called
Dwight, on the Chicago and Alton rail
road, there has lived and practised his
profession for twenty-five years past a
certain Dr. Kelley. The world at large
has heard little of him until recently.
but during all his professional career he
has enjoyed the respect and confidence
of his neighbOrs, and has been mem
Der in good standing of the county and
State societies which determine those
ethical questions which appear to be of
more significance to medical men than
to those in other learned professions.
He has long been engaged upon investi-
cations as to the cure of drukenness,
and it is said, these studies have been
but a continuation of those made by his
father and grandfather in the same di-
rection For several years past the
newspapers in the neighborhood of DR..
Keeleys 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 Mr.. Joseph
Medill, the venerable editor of the
Chicago Tribune, had his attention at
tracted 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 cure. He
therefore selected several men in Chicago
who were looked upon as hopelessly adj
dicted to the habit of drinking liquor ex-
ceSsively, and who also appeared to be
wrecked by this long continued intern
perance. These he sent to Dwight. and
engaged to pay their expenses while
undergoing treatment. The result was
so satisfactory to him that he endorsed
the methods employed by DR.. Kelley in
an editorial article in his paper.
Naturally enough. this endorsement, a
most unusual thing from a paper of the
class of the Chicago Tribune, attracted
very general attention, and soon, after
wards there was i tide of patients
turned towards the little village of
Dwight. whittier hopeless men travelled
in search of something which before had
seemed beyond their reach.
Arrived ut Dwight, these pilgrims
found a struggling village, with muddy
or dusty streets, according to the prev
alence 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-appearing men on the streets in
considerable numbers who evidently had
never taken any active 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 very small world, after all, as
every man who has travelled away from
home has found out-this concealment
is all but impossible, and the great ma
jority are soon content to settle down,
and, acknowledging to themselves that
their inebriety is a disease which they
as sensible men are trying their best to
cure. each in his own personality, and
with whatever weight that may add to
his words, tries to encourage the new
conner. and to contribute his best to the
fellowship and comradeship of the com
munity. And, singularly enough, these
patients, once dismissed as cured, never,
it is claimed. make any effort to conceal
the fact that they have been treated at
Dwight for inebriety The idea among
them seems to be that this form of dis
ease may come as typhoid fever comes,
and its cure is a matter for congratula-
tons without any concealment what
ever.
The increasing number of patients has
neccssitated the building of Il hotel; but
previous to that they boarded around
at the various houses and cottages in the
village. A new patient, after register
ing at the Kelley Institute, is given in
structions as to the routine of treatment.
He is given bottle of the bichlOride of
gold mixture. This he must take once
every two hours, and four times every
day at stated hours he must fall in line
with the other patients with barred arm,
and receive a hypodermic injection of
medicine the nature of which DR.. /
Kelley has not announced to the world, |
but which he explains to his patients is
intended as ''bracer,' and also to regu-
late the effects of the bichloride of gold. /.
His method of preparing his gold mix F.
lure he also retains as a secret.-,InO. /
Giimer Speed, Ia HdpeT''S Weekly