The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-10-15

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that drunkenness was a disease, increas-
ed no doubt by indulgence, but for which
man was no more responsible than for
q fever he had caught by exposure. 1
regret the disease. 1t has brought sor.
row and loss to me- for years of my life
that should have been most prospered.
But it has not been the unalloyed curse
that fanatics would persuade man to be.
lieve. Out of my sufferings the pictures
drawn by Felix Oldboy have been
wrought, and through struggles as fierce
as death and blackuess that was despair
have come CLEANS of the sunshine of
memory, painting the quiet old home in
which the little lad sat by the side of his
grandmother and her cat. If the pres
ent had been prosperous, I should not
have carried my life into memories of
the past. And so, as 1 believe, God
send. compensation for the battle lie
gives each one of us to fight.
AN UNAvATLISG FIGHT.
1t was because bad found no parma-
nent benefit from seclusion in al asylum
or home, but rather the contrary, because
1 fretted against restraint thai could be of
no use TO periodical drinker, that l was
ready to give fair trial to the promise
made ne by DR.. Leslie E keely, of
Dwight, that he would guarantee me
cure for my disease. told him that for
more than two months my life had been
one of entire sobriety, and asked him if
he would undertake my cure under these
circumstances. He replied that he would.
1t was something of an assurance to find
that bis experience of thirty years as a
medical man. aud for twenty years spe.
cialist in alcoholism, coincided with my
experience as q sufferer His ideas were
common sense. My own diagnosis told
me that NY trouble was disease, aud l
felt that it was al insult to medical
science to suppose for a moment that no
remedy could be found for it. r.
UNDER THE KEELY TREATMENT.
The patients first visit is paid 10 the
Office of DIR. Kelley, where his Case is
stated and where he receives hypoder-
mic injection in the upper left arm, and
there is given to him a bottle of the
bichloride of gold mixture, g dose Of
which is to be taken every two hours
while awake. The hypodermic, called in
Dwight the "shot," is the supporting
medicine, which sustsins the frame un-
der treatment. Its preparation, and the
form in which the bichloride Of gold is
made up for its special purpose, are DR..
Keely's secret, and it is manifestly
absurd for lhn>e not in the secret to pre-
tend to criticize it. The treatment is ad-
ministered four times day-at s a. NJ,
- noon, 5 p. m. and so p. NJ, and for
three or four weeks usually, though
sometimes week or two longer, accord
ing to the personal diagnosis made by the
doctor from day to day. If new arri-
val needs whiskey it is given to him in 8
bottle, and he can have more until his
palate losthes it and he returns his un-
opened bottle to the doctor. From this
point the work of his physical recon
struction begins. He finds that the
treatment is not mere tonic, as some
have supposed Sometimes his eyesight
is affected, but only for few days; in
some cases the memory is temporarily
weakened in every case he becomes
conscious of feeling Of la.situde and
conscious of Indifference to the outside
world, as the gold searches into the
weaker parts Of his frame, and purifies
and builds them up into new strength.
Nor is this all. The treatment at Dwight
removes such physical ills as sre caused
directly by drink, Or. Keeley's pro-
gramme promised this, butI had scarcely
been able to credit it. As matter of
fact, I found myself relieved of twenty
pounds o! superauous flesh, and am the
better for it, Another patient, native
Of this city, relative of Americas great
est prose writer and bearing his name,
came to Dwight on crutches while l was
there, suffering from partial paralysis
caused by drink. In ten days bis
crutches we're abandoned, and in four
weeks he went away sound of frame, aud
with new life in his body and fresh hope
in his heart
rELrERs STRANGELY BROKER
The physical experience varies in cif-
ferent cases, but to each there comes at
last time when the patient discovers
that all weakness and depression have
vanished, and that The fettcrs Of old ap-
petites and habits have fallen away from
him, and when he steps out of the dark
ness Of the wilderness into the full light
of day and knows that once more he has
q mans strength to do a mans work
among men. My own experience was
somewhat rare, because went to Dwight
free from any direct effect OF alcohol. |
experienced no loss Of memory Oh detec-
ton of eyesight, but after a week had
passed l felt that if had been anywhere
else I would have had q return of The pc.
riodical appetite, and might have yielded
to it because of my depression. l re-
member the terror this feeling gave me.
As stood in line | said to DIR. Keei iy /: