Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-12-12
DIR. KELLEY SPEAKS.
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! "Fslix Old Boy"
| ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 4--Dr. Leslie IL.
Kelley. OF Dwight, ILL.,, was in the city
yesterday. To Republic reporter DIR.
Kelley said 81 am just stopping over
on my way to Hot Springs, Ark. and
Paris, Tex, where / have branch es-
tablishments 1 have patients In st.
Louis, plenty of them, and at some
future time ! may establish branch
| institute in this city. We have 500 pa
tients at Dwight, ILL.,. and q
corps of ten physicians, with
more patients who want to
come than we can possibly handle. i
devoted eighteen years of hard work,
study, experiment and no inconsider-
able amount of money to the evolution
of my discovery and treatment. pub
lished IL to tho medical world and it
fell fiat. The doctors, in their inscrut-
able wisdom, would have nothing to
do with IL. Then | treated few
patients and sent them forth cured. A
particular friend of Joe Medill was
treated and cured. A physician of Mr..
Medills acquaintance was cured of the
alcohol and opium habit, Then Mr.
Medill sent down a reporter, who made
thoroughly exhaustive examination
OF my method of treatment and re-
ported IL in jocular vein The news
papers took up my discovery. for the
sake of the news there was in IL, and
exploited the same over the world.
That was not my advertising: neither
j nor any known power could have
stopped 1t.
Now, as TO this discovery of mine:
why should reveal the formula after
the medical profession has scorned il?
is it not mine the sameas any inven-
tion or discovery Is the property of the
inventor or discoverer, by inalienable
right which is duly protected by pat
ent law, or the book of the author pro-
tected by copyright? have been sew
erely criticised, roasted, turned over in
some newspapers, because did not re-
veal my formula, and thus put it in
the hands of every druggist, quack and
charlatan. No, sir, ] reserve the dis
covery for the benefit of the mothers,
wives and daughters ofthe land"
In response to question as To tho
case of Mr.. Mines, who rclapsed into
alcoholic debauchery and died after
having been discharged as cured, DR..
Keeley said Il do not propose to
create within the patient "a loathing
for liquor. But do claim that my
treatment kills the desire, the craving
for liquor. OF course, as in the case of
Mines, If the patient returns TO his
cups, like the dog 10 his vomit, like
the SOW to the mire, the old appetite
is re-created, innamed, increased ten
fold and the last state of that maa is
is sevenfold worse than the first.
make it rule never under any circum-
stances TO receive patient back for a
second course of treatment. There are
too many inebriates in tho world for
that warn the patients TO let alco-
hol in ali its forms alone. and am
happy to say that over % Ter cent. of
them heed the admonition and never
return TO their cups. When patient
Is placed under my care begin treat.
ing him with the bichloride Of gold at
once. At the same time give him all
the liquor he wants and the finest in
the land. Generally by the end Of
thirty-six or forty-eight hours that
man tells me he can't stomach another
drop of liquor. ] say, Very well, stop
right there and / continue the treat
ment for two or three weeks longer,
by which time | generally discharge
the patient, cured. While at the in
stitute the patient is not restrained of
his liberty--has no fence around him
and is free 10 go and come as he
chooses, and I'd do what he pleases.
The only iron.clad restriction which
j lay down is that the patient must not
again touch the 'accursed thing after
his first great deliverance."