Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-10-23
DRUNKENNESS IS DURABLE

ffA oiAih nNNN AANiA NiN Ntia a NiA'h'
and miles from home, and made my
way through a shower Of slcet to th,
bare and gloomy hotel Of little prai
rie village in Illinois. / had started
on voyage OF discovery fer the foun
tain Of renewed youth and restored
manhood, against the persuasion ol
friends who wished me to wait and
see how others Jared; ia the teeth OF
physicians who told me that it was a
deception and an old dream reyamp
ed; and in opposition to the argu-
ments OF the medical superintendent
of "A fashionable home" who insisted
that would be throwing away my
money. l went my way alone, with
out faith, but With a tiny spark Of
hope lindled in my brest, not know
ing what would befall me at Dwight.
What / saw, heard ana experienced
there is the best of all arguments foi
the treatment OF tbe alcoholic appe-
tite as a disease and for belief in its
cure
For twenty years I had been a vic
tim to the disease Of drink. 1t seized
me at odd times, usually the most in
opportunate, and in spite of all my
struggles would gain the temporary
mastery. Months ofpcace might pass,
but suddenly the fever would break
loose and run riotin my veins, and /
knew then that il must have its
course. l have as auch will-power as
the next man, but my will was straw
in the grasp Of this horror. Men who
have not felt the clutch of drink as it
sweeps through and possesses the
whole system, have no conception Of
the agony of the struggle which the
victim makes It was because / had
found no permanent benefit from Sc
clusion in an asylum or home, but
rather the contrary, because ] fretted
against restraint that could be of no
use to periodical drinkeF, that | was
ready to give fair trial to the prom
ise made me by DR.. Leslie e. Keeley,
Of Dwight, that he would guarantee
me cure for my disease. l 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 the circumstances. He re-
piled that he would. 1t was some
thing Of an assurance to find chat his
of thirty years as medical
man, and for twenty years as a spe-
ciallst in alcoholism, coincided with
ny experience as sufferer. Ills ideas
were commol-sense. My own dag
rcsls told me that my trouble was
disease, and felt that it was an in
suit to medical science to suppose for
a amopent that no remedy could be
C<und for it. Dr., Kceley Elaid down
the laws that l mast follow, the time
that must stay, and Insisted, as &e
does in all cases, on unequaiiaeA
While in his hands.
The patients first visit is paid to the
Office Of Dr. Keeley, where his case is
stated, and where he receives a hypo-
demic injection in the upper left arm,
and there is given to him a bottle of
the bichloride-of-gold mixture, dose
Of which is to lie taken every two
hours while awake. The hypodemic,
called in Dwight the shot" is the
medicine, which sustalAs
the frame under treatment. It's prep
aration and the form in which the
of gold is made up for its
special purpose, are DR.. Keeley's Sc
cret, and it i manfestly absurd for
those not in the secret 80 pretend to
it. The treatment is admin
istered four times day, at a. M, II
noon, p. IN. and 1880 p. M, and for
three or four weeks, usually, though
a week or two longer, ac-
cording to the personal diagnosis by
the doctor from day TO day. If a new
arrival needs whiskey, il is given TO
nm in bottle, and he can have more
until his palate loathes It and he re-
turns his unopened bottle to the
doctor From this point the work of
MS physical reconstruction begins.
He finds that the treatment |
S not mere tonic, as
iome have supposed. Sometimes his
'yesight is affected, but only for few
lays; in some cases the memory is |
temporarily weakened; in every case
le becomes conscious of a feeling of |
assitude and Indifference 70 the out |
ide world, as the gold searches into
he weakerpart of his frame, and |
,uilds them up into new strength.
Sor is this all. The treatment at
Dwight removes such physical ills as
ire caused directly by drink. DR..
Seeley's programme promised this,
,ut had scarcely been able to credit
t. AS a matter of fact, l found my
elf relieved of twenty pounds of
flesh, and am the better
or it.
The physical experience varies in
Iifferent cases, but to each there