The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-03-09
THE KELLEY CURE,


What Dossey Battle, OF TarbOro
N. c., Who Has Taken the
Bicbioride Of Gold Treatmen,
for Aic0hlism Has TO Say About
iI.
Dossey Battle, Esq, Of Tar.
boro, N. g., representing the
Greensboro Kelley Institute fol
the cure of drunkenness, called
at the Journal Office Tuesday
morning and after exchanging
the sweet courtesies, not bibu'
lous. between newspaper men
Battle is an cid newspaper man
he was asked something about
the famous bichloride of geld
cure, as administered in the
various Kelley Institutes.
Mr.. Battle replied: Yes; the
cures made are perfectly marvel
Gus, / was subject to the treat.
ment for alcoholism for three
weeks, ending the night of the
first Of February, and after the
second day of treatment l quit
taking whiskey Of my own yoli-
ton, having no desire for it
whatever. Some patients, very
few, take it as long as five days,
especially if they have been
long addicted to the liquor habit
and whose systems are all brok-
en- up by it. DR.. w. II. Palmer,
the physician in charge will
give the patient whiskey, and il
is perfectly pure, as long as they
desire it." t.
"The regime is simple, con-
sisting Of four shots each day
and seven doses of the Kelley
tonic, taken every two hours
beginning at 7 a. m. The shots
is what the patients call the BIZ
chloride of gold injections in
the arm and the tonic is denom'
mated dope Everything is
voluntary, the patient being al
lowed to carry the Doctors
whiskey to their rooms, but they
are placed on their honor to use
no Other.
'How does it cure you? Well
no patient knows, or cares what
the composition of the treat
ment may be. He goes to be
cured and is cured. Nor can q
patient tell why, after the treat
ment has taken a hold ON him,
his sleep is sound and refresh.
ing and his appetite and diges'
tion all he could ask for, YET
such is the fact. His spirit:
too, bound with renewed health
and he feels the glory OF a free
man redeemed from the thral
dom of strong drink.
"After he has finished the
treatment his ambition to Gem,
pensate with his future life the
painful and disastrous expert
ence of the past arises afresf
within, and his heart, before
bowed down, thrills with re
aewed hope. IntoxiCants bring
no temptation, because they arr
not desired and if a man drinks
after the treatment il is intel
lsctual prostitution, not physica
craving. This no man will d.
who begins the treatment will
even a low average Of Cersbra
gray matter.
Fiveper cent of the failures, il
they may bsso called, come from
young men who are taken Il
the institutes against their vii
land do not want to be cured
and from men plunged into tn,
depths of wrstchedness by fam
lily afiliction and do not care I,
live. Occasionally an old maj
will bo racked with physica
pain AMI for relief will swallow
all sorts of drugs, such a
morphine and the like, and en-,
up with whiskey and death.
"Yes, a man can drink again
Just as he started. but he mus
cultivate his taste for stron
drink as when he took his firs
drink. There are positively n
Injurious effects--no deplorabl
aftermath following the treat
ment. This is my experienc
and that Of a hundred men wit
whom l have talked on the sui
ject.
"They cure both opium an
tobacco habits. Jesse Pitt, fror
Edgecombe, my county, wi
leave Greensboro, today thor
oughly cured from the morphin
habit after thirteen years of vic
limitation, as happy a man as