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DRUNKENNESS SURELY CURABLE.
Story of Man Who Conquered Bis Appe-
tite.


For twenty years I had been victim
to the disease of drink. 1t seized me at
odd times, usually the most inopportune,
ard in spite of all my struggles would
gain the temporary mastery. Months of
peace might pass, but suddenly the fever
would break loose and run riot in my
veins, and / knew then that it must have
its course. / have as much will-power
as the next man, but my will was straw
in the grasp of this horror. Men who
have not felt the clutch of drink as it
sweeps through and possesses the whole
system, have no conception of the agony
of the struggle which the victim makes.
There are no grander heroes under Gods
sunlight than the men who honestly fight
against drink. I had battled for years,
had gone voluntarily into exile in homes
and asylums to escape my enemy, and
only in late years recognized the fact
that drunkenness was disease, increas-
ed no doubt by indulgence, but for which
e man Was no more responsible than for
fever he had caught by exposure.
regret the disease. 1t has brought sor.
row and less to me for years of my life
that should have been most prospered.
But it has not been the unalloyed curse
that fanatics would persuade man to be.
lieve. Out of my sufferings the pictures
drawn by Felix Oldboy have been
wrought, and through struggles as fierce
as death and blackness that wss despair
have come CLEANS of the sunshine of
memory, painting the quiet old home in
which the little lad sat by the side of his
grandmother and her cat If the pres.
ent had been prosperous, should not
have carried my life into memories of
the past. And so, as I believe, God
sends compensation for the battle he
gives each one of us to fight.
AN UNAvAILING FIGHT.
1t was because 1 had found no psrma-
nent benefit from seclusion in an asylum
or home, but rather the contrary, because
I fretted against restraint that could be of
no use to periodical drinker, that I was
ready to give fair trial to the promise
made me by DR.. Leslie E, Keely, of
Dwight, that he would guarantee me
cure for my disease. told him that for
more than two months my life had been
one of entire sobriety, and asked him if
he would undertake my cure under these
circumstances. He replied that he would.
1t was something of an assurance to find
that his experience of thirty years as a
medical man, and for twenty years spe'
cialist in alcoholism, coincided with ny
experience as sufferer. His ideas were
common sense. My own diagnosis told
me that my trouble was disease, and I
felt that it WAS all insult to medical
science to suppose for moment thst no
remedy could be found for it.
UNDER THE KEELY TREATMENT.
The patients first visit is paid to the
Office of DR.. Kelley, where his case is
stated and where he receives hypoder-
mic injection in the upper left arm, and
there is given to him bottle of the
bichloride of gold mixture, dose Of
which is to be taken every two hours
while awake. The hypodermic, called in
Dwight the "shot," is the supporting
medicine, which sustains the frame un-
der treatment. Its preparation, and the
form in which the bichloride of gold is
made up for its special purpose, are Dr..
Keely's secret, and it is manifestly
absurd for those not in the secret to pre-:
tend to criticise it. The treatment is ad.
ministered four times day-at s a. NJ,
u noon, 5 P. m. and 790 P. NJ, and for
three or four weeks usually, though
sometimes week or two longer, accord
ing to the personal diagnosis made by the
doctor from day to day. If new arri-
val needs whiskey it is given to him in a
bottle, aud he can have more until his
palate loathes it and he returns his un-
opened bottle to the DOCTOR. From this
point the work of his physical recon-
structior begins. He finds that the
treatment is not mere tonic, as some
have supposed. Sometimes his eyesight
is affected, but only for few days; in
some cases the memory is temporarily
weakened; in every case he becomes
conscious Of feeling of lassitude and
conscious of Indifference to the outside
world, as the gold searches into the
weaker parts Of his frame, and purifes
and builds them Up into new strength.
Nor is this all. The treatment at Dwight
removes such physical ills as arc caused