Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-14

not brolen-the habit of ''taking
something to drink" Of going with boon
companions. and into old associations, and
he can weld TO them II he will. For this
reason DR.. Kelley charges all graduates"
to keep away from saloons, and emphasizes
| the charge by the declaration that IL they
do and fall under the temptation, ne Will
not treat them second time. mat many
/ disregard his directions, go into Tor
/ hidden places and so fall, Is
proved by the fact that his graduates"
are found in the Washington Home and IN
| der the care Of DIR. Hargreaves, DIR. Gray
| and others. Usually these belong TO one OF
| two classes, they are either young men,
| who. not having gone down into the depths
| Of the drunkark's despair, do not realize
how terrible thing drunkenness is, ana
wishing ito see more Of life" as they cali
| it, 90 back to their old associations, Wnlcn
| led them, as they were led at hrSt, into
| drinking; or they are the old, confirmed
| drunkards, whose brains and stomachs and
| livers are too thoroughly permeated Win
the alcohol poison TO be cured by awe
weeks treatment, however heroic.
Just here seems TO US the weakness OF
any 'cure" which processes to work us emu
so rapidly. So far as drunkenness is
disease-and it surely becomes one-lt is
the result of long continued process OF
nerve deterioration produced by alconol;
| Physicians know that OF all the tissues Oh
| the body, nerve tissue IS the slowest 10
| recuperate from injury; broken bone
knits more rapidly than the severed nerve
unites-andits seems impossible, as CLAIMED.
| to make it good as new by hve weeks
treatment, the limit allowed at Dwight,
even though this includes four inlections
daily of the strongest nerve stlmuIants
known. Still, release from the craving IS
the great thing; prudence on the part Oh
the patient. and judicious care as concerns
associations, diet, and other hygienlc ln1lu-
ences, will complete the process OF cure.
The Signal criticiSeS DR.. KELLY Tor
keeping his cure a secret. 1t would
certainly be a very philanthropic thing
to make it public. But, like all physi-
clans, DR.. KELLY practices medicine Tor
livelihood and because he has discov-
cred an especially good thing is no rea-
son why he should give the profits OF
his discovery away. He has the right
of any patentee to keep his discovery to
himself. As an offset to this secresy,
however, the Signal publishes the form
ula of DR.. J. L. GRAY, of Chicago, who
is successfully treating inebriates, and
who has made it public. AS given in
the Chicago NetoS it is as follows:
Chloride Of gold and sodium. 10 (twelys) grains
Muriate OF ammonia. ..............6 (slX) grams
Nitrate Of strychnia'''',;;1;; S02e gram
Go@ppo COMPOUND iiaid extract Of c q
three) ounces
Fluid extract Of Coca.............1 (one) ounce
Glycerine. ........'....! (one( ounce
Mix aud take teaspoonful every two hours
when awake.
He sees the patient four times day, and
rapidly increases the gold and strychnla
until the symptoms show that they are get
ting all they will bear. The first day the
patient drinks pretty heavily Of the whisky
in his room. The second day he begins to
lose his desire for it. BY the evening OF
the third day or the morning Of the fourth,
he is totally sick Of it, and will not take
any more. The treatment is carried on
from three TO six weeks.
The Signal concludes:
What influence have all these "cures for
alcoholism" on total abstinence and prohl-
bitionl "A good influence says leading
Prohibitionist who had visited Dwight and
watched the long procession OF men march,
bare-arned, up TO tue doctor to be shot"
with the hypodermic syringe. Every man
Of them is put under bonds to total aosti
hence by the doctor under penalty of re-
lapse from which he refuses to cure them.
They 90 out and the temptations assailing
them through the open saloons, convince
them of the necessity Of prohibition by the
State and Nation"
"a bad influence said another visitor
to Dwight Young men whom the fear of
becoming sOts has deferred from drinking,
row think they can drink with impunity,
and when they see they are going too far,
and wish to swear off, can go to Dwight
if their money, or that Of their friends,
holds out-take a course Of bichloride of
gold and arm punctCres, and come back as
good as new"
. You can take your choice between these
opinions of two equally competent wit
nessss. For ourselves we stick to the con-
viction that the only absolutely sure cure
for drunkenness is never to drink alco-
holics. This may sound somewhat like
DR.. Holmes famous prescription for curing
almost any i'll that fl ssh is heir to: "Com-
mence the treatment with the patients
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" but no one can dispute
its efficacy.