The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-13
CAN FACE THE FIRE.
The Inebriafe Finds New Birth Of Good
Citizenship and Stands Nan
Among Men.

To the Editor OF Indianapolis Journal:
Both as physician of experience and as
former patient of the Kelley Institute OF
Plainfield do feel qualified to speak con-
cernlng the success of the Kelley system
of cure for alcoholism and the opium habit
was discharged. cured from this instl-
tute some months ago. and have since be-
come citizen of this beautiful village and
a close observer of the results attending
the treatment and cure of the hundreds OF
patients that have come here TO the Kelley
Institute from all parts of the country. and
| am convinced there is no error in Dr.
Keeley's foundation theories. from the
standpoint of pathological science.
know that the Kelley cure cures. and
the small per cent. of apparent failures
only proves the truth of the general rule.
The general principles of telephony are
true. though al occasional telephone may
the Kelley cure of inebriety are true.
though an occasional drunkard may
anu utterly untrue the statements
that this system Of treatment ever pro-
duces the slightest i'll effects | have
watched its effects In hundreds of cases
land il must be remembered that ma
jority of all who come here are ply al
wrecks). and the result has been uniform
restoration and cure. | have seen it ad-
ministered to five-year-old child In case
of what might be called cOngenital NOR
phinism, and j have seen the child re-
turned to Its home In twenty -one days
free from it's addiction and fully restored to
health; so say the stories ati0at as to the
alleged i'll effects of this treatment are as
false in conception as they are vicious in
tendency; for One of the effects of these
falshOOds is to keep men In the bondage of
drunkenness who otherwise would seek a
cure here and be restored to s0brIety and
usefulness
The patients here are given sufficient
whisky to keep them "braced uD" until
the medicine takes effect; then they no
longer want whisky. They select their
own boarding place, and their time is COM
pletely at their own disposal. with no re-
each day when they are given hypodermIc
treatment
The moral portion of the cure is left en-
tirely to the patient. and it is the expert
ence of most men who for years have been
in a state of what might be termed alcO-
holic coma. that as soon as the effects of
this treatment thoroughly manifest them
selves In the physician condition the mental
condition becomes active and strong In
sympathy. A man is enabled to look his
past squarely In the face, and to compre-
bend inst what that past tells him.
In his drinking II oments such period OF
retrOspee:ion would have been but the fore
runner of a spree. for whisky. then, was to
him mantle that served to hide disagree
able thoughts. and behind this mantle he
never failed to seek refuge But, when he
has emerged from the state of coma he does
not fear to look over his past, and his
moral nature. however dulled 1t may have
become, does not fail to grow better by this
scrutiny.
10 sum it all up. know that the Kelley
cure cures. because it cured NE. i love
this beautiful Quaker village. with ite
Kelley Institute, because it was here that
was virtually born again. and it is here
that L have seen hundreds of Others
launched into q new birth of good citizen
ship and 1.-The swing of the pendulum" OF
public opinion must ultimately be in the
direction of these truths.
j. G. MCILvAINE, NJ. D.