The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-12
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being the prescription. Six days usually
exhausts bottle, which are mum uered up to
five. The entire course OF treatment for al
cSholism lasts from three to four weeks,
that for the opium and morphine habit a
week or two longer. The cure is declared
to be an utter elimination OF the unnatural
appetite with which the patient is afflicted
The men usually return their bottles Of
whisky untasted for the first time in three
or five days after treatment has begun.
At the hotel in White Plains, where the
Keeley patients are lodged, the days pass
somewhat raonotonously. The men, for
the most part, sit around the plazzAs and
wait for the hours to come when they are
to go up the street to the office for hypo-
dermic treatment. Poker and other games
of cards, with stakes however small, are in
terdicted, and theIa patients cautioned
against all forms of excitement
Ii the new arrival for treatment is
without power to take care of him.
self. even under the hope held out to him
and the liquor allowed him to taper Off p
with. he is placed in charge of an attend
ant who Is himself a graduate of the in
stitute"-one who hhsd been successfully
treated. These attendants, who are never
without TASKS of valeoholic liquor IN their
pockets, are, it seemed to the writer, an Inn
portant part Of the remedial agencies of the
place in the examplessthey furnish of the
recovery from the tpcOntrollable0 appetite
their patients are still afflicted witho9 edI
Often cases are hEaHgha TO the institWteof
men and women accompanied by relatives
or friends who in their attempt 10 expedite
the helpful results of the treatment do much
injury from a misunderstanding of the
prescribed processes or q willfull neglect to
follow instructions. A stoutly built mid
dle-aged man evidently of ample means
but an utterly fallen victim to the liquor
habit, arrived at the institute not
long ago accompanied by his sister. They
took lodgings remote from the other pa
tients. He was given the usual four ounce
bottle of bourbon to put In his pocket
against the first eager craving for the
s5imulant. His sister, however, persuaded
him 10 destroy the liquor and watched him
with solicitous care that he got none else
where. After two days of this restraint the
man was the victim of delirium tremens
and his sister was denied further partner
ship with the institute in treating him.
A majority of the cases that present them
selves at White Plains for treatment are
men who are seriously DESTROYS Of Kidding
themselves of an appetite that Is dragging
them to ruin, and they follow the routine OF
the institution with docile confidence. They
drink from their pocket flask when they
ieel as if they must drink, and hope for the
time when they can return the bottle un-
touched and undesired With some of them
much courage is required to go on with the
treatment after the first few experiences
with the hypodermic syringe. During the
entire period of the application of the RENE
dies few complain of disagreeable sensa-
tons. The eyesight is affected, the mouth
gets dry, the taste for tobacco almost dis
appears, there is an itching sensation over
the entire body, aud the desire for water is
very great. To many, however, the treat
ment is a pleasant tonic from the beginning,
and the enforced rest and absence from ex-
element shows visibly in the improvement
Of their general condition. A close compan-
ionship often grows up between the
patients who are thrown together at the
hotel. and few come to the Institute for
bility and throw of the feelings of restraint
and fear OF publicity.