The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-13
ANOTHER ANTIDOTE
Discovered for the Drink Habit by
q Chicago Physician.
GOLD ONE OF ITS COMPOSITES.
In It's EricfTrial ut tho Bennett Hos.
pltnl It's Inventor, DR.. Clark, Has
Found tho Treatment Emlncntly
Successful - Similar to Kcclcy's
Remedy.

CHICAGO, Oct. l2.-Another Chicago
physician has discovered Il cure for al.
coholism. DR.. Percival L. Clark, resi-.
dent physician and surgeon OF the Bon
nett hospital and chief surgeon OF the
Railway brotherhood Hospital Associa-
ton, thinks he has found Il euro for
alcoholism which will prove as success.
iul rs the famous Kelley cure.
For moro than n year DR.. Clark has
been at work. Flo based his researches
on the well known bichloridc OF gold rs
an ciiectual remedy for the appetite for
liquor. -Four months uso he went to
Dwightand made a careful study of the
symptoms OF DR.. Kccley's patients
while under treatment, and found them
much tho same MS those produced BY
his own remedy. What the ingredients
OF his cure are, DR.. Clark refuses TO say,
further than that gold is used to 4 GER
tain extent.
He has now been testing it for about
two months on patients who have been
placed under his charge by charitably
inclined persons. Each OF these have
left tho hospital protesting to have no
further desire for drink, and, MS far rs
can be ascertaiucd, tho cure has been
successful.
THINKS HIS CURE ErFECruAL.
DR.. Clark was seen in his office in
tho McVicker Theatre building and said
in regard to the cure: "Oi course l can
not come out and say that I have dis
covered 4 permanent cure for alcohol
''lsm yet, for have only given it Il test
OF 0couplc OF months. But / can say |
have yet my first failure to make in re-
licvlng the appetite Tor drink. | know
can DO this much, but am not sure
whether it will be permanent. l have
been working on tliecurc ior some time,
but have only been treatin. patients
Tor about two months. | can't say
whether my curt is similar to DR..
hcelcy's or not. as l do not know exact
ly Of what chemicals his is composed,
but think they are somewhat similar.
l have had under my care about forty
men affected by Curiosity and each OF
them has lett the hospital without any
desire Tor stlmulants. l administer my
remedy in much the same manner rs
DR.. Kelley. Three or four times a dav,
according tothe conditioner the patient,
hypodermic injections are given. In
ternal remedies arc taken every two or
three hours.
81 keep the patients under my care
four weeks before being satisfied that |
have done all that ! can do for them.
One particularly bad case was Mt the
hospital for six weeks before I wa sat
isiied that he could withstand tempta-
ton when he returned to his old asso-
Citations. All OF my work has been Tor
experiment SO for, and Us l anu not
able to stand the expense OF Il large
number my patients have been too few
to make any thorough test. But | am
convinced that | am on the right track,
and ii my remedy at present is not
complete l will continue in nv re-
searches until it will effect a permanent
cure"
HIS TREATMENT so FAR SUCCESSFUL.
DR.. Clark then told OF the experience
OF several OF his patients. One was 4
young man from Evanston who had been
a hard drinker for several years. He
was anxious to be cured, and one OF DR..
Clarks friends sent him to the Bennett
hospital. For the first week alter tax
ing the treatment, the desire Tor drink
decreased, and at the beginning OF the
second week he refused to take any
more stimulants. He remained in the
hospital for a month. lie has been out
about four weeks now, and, as far as the
physician can ascertain, has not touched
liquor since. Another left the hospital
after being treated two weeks, and has
not since felt any craving for liquor.
DR.. Clark intends to continue until he
is satisfied that his cure is successful,
and then open ward in the hospital
where he will treat patients for alcohol
ism. He has not yet digniied his cure
with a name. He allows his patients to
drink whisky, but stipulates that it
must be pure and that they stick to his
prescribed diet.