The times., 1891-06-26
Cure For Drunkenness.


alcohol differs only in degree. The ground
work of the plot X much the same IN every
/ case-socia pleasure. want of stimulants.
realization 0t their danger. Ieetoaism for
varying periods, followed by greater in-
dugences. to terminate at last in q general
! collapse Then come renewed. endeayOrs
| supplementary debaucheS and complete
surrender
Once in awhile man is possessed of will
power sufficient 10 wrest himself from the
tolls of drunkenness. but il is the fight of
a lifetime. He may steadily refuse the
! protfered cup, but the desire for ii remains
through it aii Such is the evidence of
drinking men everywhere. Until recently
alcoholism was considered vice. but is
now, among the more enlightened and pro-
| gressve physicians. looked upon as disease
| which requires medical treatment cutie MS
much as ether hereditary or acquired NAL
| adieS.
While on my way to New York some
weeks ago a Chicago man ran across an
article IN a leading eastern daily descriptive
| Of the Leslie +. keeey cure for drunken
nes'. The article was from the pen of a
| former patient, and was so strong, earnest.
| and. convincing that the Chicagoan resolved
| upon his return to Chicago to visit Dwight
and see for himself how much of truth there
was in the statement. That visit he now
| counts as one of the most interesting and
| curious events OF his life What he saw
there in twenty-four hours was revelation.
Notwithstanding what he had read. his
preconceived idea of the place was of long,
| gloomy halls, barred and grated doors. stone
| walls and sentineled gates The idea that
men whom he had learned to look upon as
| violent and vicious could be in any. other
a fo,
length OF time never occurred to him. But
| he found instead an entire absence of these
marks of restraint, Think of $50 men.
| physically well, gathered from all parts of
the country and representing every profess
| sion and trade. going quietly along from
day to day taking treatment a pleasant.
cheerful, hopeful colony, and this within
three hours ride of the second city i'm the
| country, to which, did they choose. they
could go at almost any hour. Yet for any
thing that cOull be discovered such a
| thought never comes to them.
They are there for purpose-the restora-
ton OF manhood-and the evidence of the
older patients is so convincing that the
shadow of failure never presents itself.
| lhelr falth Is founded upon things seen and
| felt and nothing short of Dr. Keeley's
| cheerful ''yOu are cured, sir, YOU nav 90
A representative of The Times who went
to Dwight to investigate was met at the
station by crowd of patients, who i'm
medlately made inquiry if he were seeking
| DIR. keeleys Office. An affirmative reply
brought forward several courteous gentle
men who prOffered their services to guide
| him thither Notwithstanding an abstemi-
| Gus life he was taken for new patient as
matter of course. ''Whiskey or mOrphine?"
questioned the guide as he pilOted the new
conner across the street. On learning that
he had come as an investigator and not for
treatment he seemed somewhat disappOnt-
ed, but gave, nevertheless, much interesting
infOrmatiOn-in fact everyone there was
anxious that the wonderful virtues of the
| remedy should be heralded abroad-all cor
r0berative of the article previously men,
| toned.
NATURE OF THE TREATMENT.
DIR. Kelley, an DID, gray-haired but still
vigorous man. dScOverer of the remedy
| superintends the treatment in person, and
| his memory Is such that every man as he
passes in review before him is recognized
| and called by name. Four times a day
| every patient able to be about is required to
visit the office for hypOdermic treatment
1t is an interesting and curious sight to see
more than two full companies of we'll
dressed, intellectual looking men, their left
arms barred to the shoulder, slowly pass in
a continuous line before a little stand on
which sits small china dish, divided into
three compartments containing different
cOlored liquids, from some one of which a
| few drops is injected into the arm of each.
Old and young, rich and poor, lawyers
doctors, merchants, ournalists-everythn
| from the millionaire to the mechanic-touch
L nI Ne
| dream of Utopia; perfect commune of
| democracy.
| The patient, Immediately upon his arrival,
| Is questioned as to his former habits,
health. etc. He is then booked as ''regl-
lar" given an eight-onnce bottle of the
Gold Cure, a certain quantity of which he
Is required to take regularly every two
hours, some liquor If he needs it (the latter.
by the way, is furnished him regularly until
he puts it away of his own accord, which he
invariably does at the end of three days).
and is then directed to some hotel until he
can select for himself such boarding house
as suits him. With the exception of follow
ing directions regarding his medicines, he is
no more restricted in Dwight than il he
were at home following his usual vocation.
DIR. Kelley courts the most rigid investi-
CATION regarding the remedy. Whatever
| may pC thO CohotituCHb parts vi IIllS nleul-
cine, it is certainly a wonderful specific fol
the liquor habit
MIR. FORNEY's TESTIMONY.
ID. S. FOrney of Moberly, Mo-, one of its
best-knOwn and influential citizens, sent
his son to Mr.. Kelley some nineteen months
ago for treatment for the liquor habit. He
says that his son returned home a changed
man, and Immediately began work at his
former employment, that of commercial
trayeer, where he mingled every day with
his associates and friends. When asked tC
join them in social drink he said: ''No.
sir; have no further use or desire for liquor
nor would touch drop of it for the state
of Missouri" Mr.. Forney interested him
self at once in saving other of his friends
and has since sent nineteen other unfortu-
nate drinkers to DR.. Kelley with but one
failure, and he was barkeeper. In several
cases Mr.. FOrney advanced the money to
pay for treatment and other expenses OF
those sent here, and on their return to bust.
ness every one repaid him from their first
earnings. This is only one of the many
cases cited me.
Eleven years of trial, in which more than
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