The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-10-17

or less full accounts OF his having
cured by the use of double chloride
OF gold men who had long been re-
garded as hopeless drunkards.
Something like a year ago Mr..
Joseph Medill, the venerable editor
OF the Chicago Tribune, had his at
tention attracted to this new method
Of treatment, and had an exami.
nation made OF it. What he learned
influenced him to make a practical
test of the alleged cures. He there
fore selected several men in Chicago
who were looked upon as hope
lessly addicted to the habit of drink
ing liquor excessively, and who also
appeared to be wrecked by this
long continued intemperance. These
he sent to Dwight, and engaged to
pay their expenses while undergoing
treatment. The result was so salts
factory to him that he endorsed the
methods employed by DR.. Kelley
in an editorial article in his paper.
Naturally enough, this endorsement,
a most unusual thing from paper
OF the class of the Chicago Tribune,
attracted very general attention, and
soon afterwards there was a tide of
patients turned towards the little
village OF Dwight, whittier hopeless
men travelled in search of some
thing which before seemed beyond
their reach.
Arrived at Dwight, these pilgrims
found a struggling village, with
muddy or dusty streets, according
to the prevalence of rain or sunshine,
and there was only one thing to
make it seem different from any
other western village in which
twelve hundred persons had made
their homes. This difference was al
most noted at once. There were
well-dressed and well.appearing men
on the streets in considerable num-
bers who evidently had never taken
any active part in village life, and
who were not now OF it. These
were the pilgrims. these the patients,
who had gone to see whether the
bichloride of gold treatment could
quench their fiery thirst
The impulse which each new
patient brings with him, it is said, is
to conceal his identity !; but as there
are men from all parts of the country
there-and this is but a very small
word, after all, as every man who
has travelled away from home has
found out-thiS concealment is all but
impossible, and the great majority
are soon content to settle down, and
acknowledge to themselves that their
inebriety is a disease which they as
sensible men are trying their best to
cure, each in his own personality,
and with whatever weight that may
add to his words, tries to encourage
the new conner, and to contribute his
best to the fellowship and comrade-
ship of the community. And,
singularly enough. these patients,
once dismissed as cured, never, it is
claimed, make any effort to conceal
the fact, that they have been treated
at Dwight for inebriety. The idea
among them seems to be that this
form of disease may come as typhoid
fever comes, and its cure is a matter
for congratulation without any con.
cealment whatever.
The increasing number of patients
has necessitated the building OF a
hotel; but previous to that they
boarded around at the various
houses and cottages in the village. |
A new patient, after registering at
the Kelley Institute, is given in
structions as to the routine OF treat
ment. He is given a bottle of the
bichloride of gold mixture. This he
must take once every two hours,
and four times every day at stated
hours he must fall in line with other
patients with barred form, and receive
a hypodermic injection of a medi
cine the nature OF which DR.. Kelley
has not announced to the world, but
which he explains to his patients is
intended as ''bracer," and also to
regulate the effects of the bichloride
OF gold. His method OF preparing
his gold mixture he also retains as
secret.-Ha,per'S Weekly.