Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-12-17

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food is relished, and quiet sleep takes
the place of restless nights. Thus
freed from the effects and appetite for
stimulanUs, the patient is no longer
their slave, nor will he ever be unless
he willfully creates anew his appetite
4 for them.
/ DRUNKENNESS A DISEASE.
That drunkenness is disease is now
pretty generally conceded, and it
needs no better proof than is found in
the results from the use of DIR. Kelley IS
Bi-chloride of Gold Cure. "Those laws
which affect mans physical being have
been very carefully traced ont and
Investigated, and great results have
been attained.
The results of the investigation in
the matter of the Inheritance of disease
have been wonderful Everybody knows
that sons have and do inherit this love
of strong drink. Babies in their cradles
are known to crave alcohol, inherit
ing the taste from their fathers. The
Anglo-SaXon race has been drinking
for thousand years. We are all
drinkers, if it was not for the name
and disgrace Of the thing we would
all drink not as drunkards, perhaps,
but we would all take strong drink II
is characteristic of the race. Science
has now taken hold of this problem.
1t has been clearly demonstrated that
alcohol not only affects the functions
of the organs of neutrition but the
nerve centers. the effect of this dis
eased condition of the nerve cells is to
produce by heredty like weakened and
imperfect nerve centers in the offspring
of the afflicted. This inherited condi-
ton of the nervous system, which
Graves drink, Is clearly a disease.
The question is, is there a way to cure
it? Drunkenness has only of late been
thought a disease. although sometimes in
sanitariums bad cases have been treat
ed medically.
DRUNKENNESS is a DISEASE
and the drunkard is not altogether res
ponsible for his acts, yet society holds
him responsible. In scientific view
he is diseased Just the same as a man
suffering from scrofula or insanity.
Being diseased can he be cured? A dis
| tinguished scientist has communi-
Gated the fact that nature has a
remedy for every disease. Drunken
ness is disease. hence. then.
there is cure. Socially drunkenness
is a vice 1t has brought misery and
wretchedness wherever it has appeared.
Words fail to picture the misery it has
caused. But medically it is disease
and the cure has been found In the
little town of Dwight in the interior Of
the State of Illinois, there lives a doc
tor whose name will 90 down future
ages amid the glad songs of redeemed
men and smiling wives. 4 name that
in the future will be the synonym of
sunshine and happiness to thousands,
a name that will tell of blasted homes
made happy. a name that will call
back the glad smile to contented and
| happy mothers for it tells of sons and
fathers saved and given back to a
life of usefulness. For years DIR. Kee-
lev had been known simply as a country
doctor, doing d country practice. For
four years a surgeon in the army he
saw and studied drunkenness and con
ceived that it was disease. The con
viction did not come as the result of
scientific research, but flashed on him
Recurring to his early reading he
thought of that element spoken of by
an old philosopher, as an original ele-
ment of such great power. that could it
be used as medicine 1t must be very
potentiaI-gold. He read this and be
gan to study this element. He worked
with chloride and bi-chlorlde Of gold.
He experimental upon drunkards He
found he could cure them. For eleven
years he followed this out, sending men
away from him cured-manhood which
had been lost in the mud and miro
lifted up without making 1t known to
the world Manhood IS the graadest
factor in the universe. 1t may be cast
down before q tyranlcal and beastly
appetite, but it cannot be blotted out.