Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-04

failure, is the only thing that will reduce
| your pulse?' Il do answered. 4 can't
| believe it. Come to my Office the next time
| you are attacked One day, in company
| with my father, called on the doctor. l
| held out my hand. The doctor timed my
| pulse-140. He vainly tried medicine after
medicine and finally said: Il don't under
! stand it Give me some whisky, said l.
| He gave me a glass of liquor and my pulse
} dropped to 80. I give it up, said he, and
I then, turning to father, said: Mr. Lyons,
your son can't help it. 1t is disease The
doctor afterward wrote me up for a medi-
cal journal. was sent to Boston to be
treated, but my disease broke out again
while l was under treatment. L was taken
to Paris, but was compelled to drink, and
came home hopeless
Cured Within One Week.
''One morning my father called my atten-
tion to an article in the New York Sm 1t
recounted the wonderful cures that had been
effected by Dr. Keeley's bi-chloride of gold
treatment I had never heard of Dwight,
and having failed cure in the world s
most famous city, had no faith in DR.. Kee-
ley, but, several days later, when I felt an
| attack coming on, l started for Dwight. 1
was almost a mailman when I arrived, and
so soon as 1 saw the doctor I began to ex-
plain the popularity of my case. Yes, he
said, cutting me off, nearly every man has
| peculiar case. How long has it been since
you drank?' About month, l answered.
We'll, then, you don't need any whisky.
But, l almost raved, L must have it.
See, my pulse is running away with me.
You don't seem to understand my
case He made no reply to my state
ment, but quietly requested me to expose
my left arm. | did so, and he injected his
pink fluid, and then, giving me bottle of
tonic, dismissed me- If l could have board
ed train 1 would have left in disgust, but
as I could not, 1 went to bed after taking
dose Of the tonic. got up and took a dose
several times during the night, and was sur
prised at morning to find that my pulse had
gone down, but the thirst was still strong
upon me, and 1 hastened to the doctors
office. He gave me a shot in reply to my
demand for liquor, and 1 was again sent
away with instructions to take my tonic
regularly. Well, within a weeks time my
thirst was entirely gone and my nerves
were stronger than they had been for
years. "
1 remember the last words I heard him
utter: 81 would not be in the condition I
was when I came here, if there were no such
treatment in view, for million dollars, for
in that condition money could only supply
the means of destruction"
wen-Known Writer'S Experience.
Colonel Mines, one of the best-known
newspaper men of New York, and whom 1
have long known as an editorial writer, came
to Dwight, accompanied by his son, a bright
boy about 13 years of age. Mines long ago
recognized dipsomania as disease, and be-
lieved that cure could eventually be found,
but none of the doctors with whom he con-
suited would agree with him. He went to
Fort Hamilton, a place widely known as an
institution where the liquor habit was cured,
but left there in disgust He tried other
places, but the thirst still remained. When
1 saw him at Dwight he declared that he had
been born again, and to party of news
paper men he read a paper that he had pre-
pared for the New York World 1t was the
autobiography of constant struggle of
misery, and was piece Of writing that
might serve as model of strength. II
know" said he, "that L shall never take
another drink, for 1 have gone through
physiological change"
81 know that he won't, too" said his little
son, who overheard the remark
"How do you know" some one asked.
Because" said the boy, 81 see some
thing in his face never saw there before.
The Champion Morphine Man.
Among the many victims of morphia
whom met was DR.. w. H. Jennings who
lives at No. S91 Cauldwell avenue, New
York. When he came to Dwight he was,
and had been for ten years, taking 100 grains
of morphine and pint of alcohol daily: He
was almost a maniac when brought there,
and had to be watched constantly to prevent
his committing suicide. One morning,
when he had been under treatment during |
several weeks, he thus addressed DR.. |
Kelley:
Doctor, think can do without any |
morphine until night. If I have to make |