New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-27
DRUNKENNESS rs CURABLE.
A STORY OF ACTUAL RESULTS.

A STORY OF ACTUAL hEoCHA"'
John FlaveI Mines ("Fellx oldboy" in inc North
American Review. ,,,., 49,.
,h va csrs thousand miles from home; anu han S
my way through shower Oh S xtlsce IN Illinois
;1.rted IN voyage Of discovery Tor te iOnn'n
of renewed youth and restOrca haliv ~ waT and see
81 friends who wished me 70 wait anu ~. ia
per ehe Jared in the teeth Of physicans VINO 'oa
me that Il was deception anu an c,,oonfs of tho
xnmDed. and I'm opposition 10 the arsuhte n ,si,o
aa aPoG 'srncrinten6en. OF fashionable homc WI"
Insisted that / would be throwing away mn M With
! Vent nv way alone, without iata Du' tnoC,ini
t, Mark Of hope ldndled in my beast no. hhy y
What would befail Inc at Dwight VIVA, s argnment
s ans tSs treatment n the alcoholic appetite as as
ease ard for belief in Us cure c,r 10 tbe disease
% girIS n seized me Mt odd times, usually lpe W
nopportune ad in spite OF az ny VI ssare nHt
Saln me Snt Suddenly the fever would break l3dse
and run riot in my veins. and knew eSvo ''e a.,
NAV n,, lin r",rer rs the next man, bnt my
will was a straw in the grasp OF this hoIrO, .br"l
Ia ,,nSsos.es the wEo G system. have no cohoepuol
o G ,hp sonv of the struggle which the victim makes.
II Heas Because had found permanent Dcneat nom
ioI because f,tted against restraint that could We
" E6 Tse to q periodical drnlscr that was ready
ul i've "a fair rial to the promise made me by Dr.
leslie f. Kelley, OF Dwight, that he would gIhranles
me Ggpe months nv life had been one Of entire
sobrety. and asked him if he would undertake my ny
cUTe under these circumstances. lie replied 1hat nc
would 4 was something OF an assurance 70 ma ,nls
his experience of thirty years as medical man. and
Tor twenty years as q specialist n alcoholism coin
1G WiiR nv experience rs sufferer His ideas
were common-sense My own diagnosis tom me this
my trouble was disease and fet tnat II WAS b s
no remedy could be found for IT, Dr. Keeey n'a dqwn
the that must follow, the time that mus Is
and insisted. as he does in all cases on uhquahheu
The patients first visit Is paid to the once OF Dr.
Kelley where his case stated and where he receives
hypOdermlc injection in the upper eit arm u, ana
there is given to him bottle OF inc benHGeO i eo
hours while awake The hypodermic, called in DWIGHT
the shot, Is the supporting medicine whc1 sGs'a s
form in which the blchloride Of gold IS made up Tor IT'S
special purpose arc Dr. Kceleys secret ana IL Is
to criticise It. The treatment is administered four
times day at i ~ noon 29sss p P:uaT any though
sometimes week or two longer. according 10 the per
sonal diagnosis made by the doctor from day 10 Gay,
If new arrival needs whiskey, II IS given 20 MN ia
bottle and he have more uptl his palate loasIes
it and he returns his unopened bottle t. the doctor
From this point the work Of his physical reconstcuon
beams. lie finds that the treatment is not mcIo
tonic, as some have supposed SOMETIMES ms eve,
sight IS affected. but only for few days. IN some
cases the memory IS temporarily weakened; In every
case he becomes conscious of feeling Of hsSliuae nu
into the weaker parts Of his frame and puries ana
builds them mp into new strength Nor Is ms all,
are cansed directly by drink, DR. Keeey's programme
promised this but bad scarcely oeen able to credit
twenty pounds OF superiuous hes and am the bet'er
for it.
The physical experience varies in dIHerenI oascs'
but TO each there comes at last time when inc pa
tent that all weakness end depress on nave
vanished. and that the letters OF old appeutes ana
out OF the darkness Of the wilderness into the full light
Of day and knows that once more he has mans
strength to do mans work among men. As stood
I'm line sald TO Dr. Kceley an glad llaJ CanV
at this time ! think hive hit ono OF my periodical
attacks for feel 50 blue and wretched that were
in New York I should yield and drink Ana tho
boy - inquired the doctor looking scarchngly at me,
YOU wouldn't leave hml7 "Of course not sdld,
do not intend 10 drink but thought II rcht to tell
YOU the symptoms He bade me wait until me line
of patients had gone through their treatment then took
me into his own Office poured ont nearly half tllmbler
of whisky, with little water added and SAD DAnk
the reply, adrini it." drank half of #
and said, why. It's whhibey' Drink it AL AL
Key would as readily give Won that "a anything else
drank. went TO dinner, went walking In the after
noon, and never thought Of It again until went bacE
to the office at the regular hour Nor dld want any
more nor want 10 take the two ounce bottle OF whsKey
which WIS handed me ct noon next daE VIII m
That was the end Of my drinking and all that has
passed my lips since the 31St dav Of January. Form
trly a drink OF whiskey would have set my brain
miles to get the second and had II at all hazards
When ! that it had ceased to make me It's victim
and slave | could have cIied for Joy.
No one who has not been similarly cursed with the
disease Of drink know the JOY o. the moment In
which my cure came to me Ss fact 4 90 not u Do 70
lis permqnency. I did not doubt twenty years ago
that I was cured Of the chillS and fever did not
doubt when this last May came around with lts
blossoms of spring. that my cure was permanent ana
that the appetite for drink was eradicated do NOT
understand the processes. but know the fact said
Mr. George Work Of this city who was one ne OF my
know about It IS that went 10 Dwight. and there
DR.. Kelley cured me" and as he said this thought
and his reply to the doubters who gathered around ana
tomented him. To all Of rs who suffered and have
been healed II IS a resurrection.