Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-15

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the pupils of the eyes, which causes tenn
porary impairment of the sight-not
usually lasting more than a week, but suf-
fcient in degree to make necessary the
wearing of glasses
! One OF the peculiar and interesting ef-
fects Of the treatment is that which is seen
in the shut-of of the whisky supply. The
patient who has to use whisky for few
DAYS or hours after coming in realizes after
greater or less time that the medicine he
is taking and whisky are bitter enemies,
bound to fight and cause commotion when
ever they come into contact, and the medi-
cine is the stronger one of the two After
he has allowed his stomach to be used as the
arena or ''ring" for one or more OF these set
tos of vigorous slugging he begins to think
that he has other and better uses for that
stomach, and if he forgets it bis
stomach will remind him of it. Given suf-
fcient time good stomach (or bad one)
will teach even the poorest brain that it is
not we'll to continue drinking whisky. If a
man has no brain at all and does not recog-
nize the situation it's, all the same, for the
medicine and the stomach will shut off the
influx automatically just about as do the
automatic valves you hsve seen, which reg
ulated by float in the tank, shut off the
inflow of water when the tank is nearly
full
The Period OF Recuperation.
From the time q man is able to cease leas-
ing his stomach like farmers barn, for q
prize fight (or the time when he Is com.
PEELED, in some cases), he begins to, get well
to eat and get natural sleep and build up
generally.
The treatment is unquestionably her
culean and heroic one. 1t needs blow such
as Thor could bestow or Vulcan or Tubal
Cain, to "bruise the head of the SERPENT"
and that this has been devised in the system
which is to make worlds word of the
name of an obscure country doctor, is very
quickly made evident to all who undergo it.
Supposing that q man takes four weeks
treatment, as believe q majority do, he
gets at the rate of four hypodermics per
dien, q total of 112, if the general rule
as to medicine thus administered holds
good, equal in effect to four times the amount
if taken by stomach, and with absolute cer-
tainty that the effect cannot be lost. Of
the other medicine he takes seven
or eight doses per day, or total
in four weeks Of 200 doses or more. Of
course the mere amount means nothing if
the Ingredients are not right, but of that a
man has proof in the general and final
effect He is constantly aware that very
acted within his corporate limits.
The Luxuriously ly Lazy Period.
The general effects, after those of the first
few days, which are usually of a disagree
able nature, one feels to be salutary and
soothing and restfuL In the preponderance
of cases there is period of indisposition to
exertion, but not any accompanying feeling
of inability. The patient feels that he
could do anything he desired, but he de-
sires to do nothing, 1t is luxuriously |
Lazy sensation.
"My feelings just now" said friend in
dreamy tones, remind me Of the passage |
in the Lotos Eaters where il says, And |
after they had travelled long time they |
came finally into land where it was al |
ways afternoon Yes, its always afternoon |
noon now and" and he let his cigar go |
out and went to sleep with his eyes wide |
open, seeing strange sights in the gas flame,
which transformed the asbestos in the CRATE |
into the Golden Fleece.
This, too, passes away like the less pleas |
ant sensations which preceded it, and there |
comes a few days after the treatment has |
ceased the most pronounced sense of benefit |
in the whole series of quickly succeeding |
impressions, and this one an abid- |
ing one-a satisfied feeling of renovation |
aud rehabilitation. Of what does the cure |
of restored nervous equilibrium and conse- |
quent mental equipoise-the condition |
rom which men of peculiar temperament |
are somehow strayed away and to which |
they have sought blindly and frantically |
and vainly q return.
The Result of the Treatment
The best conservative statement Of the |
cure as 1 think the majority experience it |
IS that one feels placed in an attitude to- |
ward alcohol such as he occupied before |
ever tasting it, and plus that feeling q sense
of relief from the physical ills which came
from its abuse. 1 do not believe the appe-
lite will return unless invited and encour-
lged and the wise man will not o second
lime make welcome so undesirable guest
The day may come when will must sup
element the work of the Kelley cure in
lictating refusal of mere temptation, not
esis;ance to appetite, ard when that day
comes believe the majority of Kelley
graduates will be found equal to the emer-
,ency.
The gold cure for alcoholism and dipso-
mania (Which alike constitute plain drunk
nness), does two things of immense value,
instead of one, for the victim of drink. It
the man who conscientiously
axes the treatment from a most horrible
hraldom, and it lifts a load of obloquy
rom him by demonstrating that the thing
rom which he suffered was a disease.
Drunkenness is unquestionaDly both vice
nd disease in q majority of the worst
vice first, disease later-is the
sual rule, but disease from the very first
n many instances, according to the opinion
f a majority Of the students of the complex
ubiect among laymen and physicians
The consciousness That It's . Disease.
To the man who has gone on for years
triving with all his strength to abstain
rom drink, knowing that any drink means
or him inevitable excess, and excess means
nexorably EXTREMIST physical and mental
orture that man can endure, but who still
rinks, bearing in addition to all other
tings, the unkindest one of all-the accusa-
ion of acquaintsnces aud even of friends
hat, he can abstain and will not-the
authoritative word ofthe physician who says,
i know you cannot; you are the victim Of
disease" comes as the biggest comfort
hat he has ever experienced since the days
f his childhood. And then comes the logi-
al sequence-disease is often durable;
e may be cured. The cure is UNDER
aiken; it is effectual (but alas, not in all
ases, for human science and skill are not
ct absolute Lords OF Life and DEATH and he
oes forth released from his terrible condi-
ion. And this very release effected purely
y medical means, demonstrates that that
ondition was disease.
To the man who has gone on for years
rinking excessively, usually against his
Ill, who has sought to stop, but in vain, |
he cure is much; but the demonstration |
hat it was a disease which possessed him is
erhaps even more. Upon him boundless
wo-fold benison has descended and
raped him round about. To hi. lips