The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-02-13

thS didSOh lflHS uhuSI lne tongues o
a rrillion victims, let all Laboratories anC
all apothecaries, and all the electric
batteries, and all the herbariums bs
directed, Depend upon it, if thi.
keeley bi chloride of gold does not dc
the work, then something else will. In
stead OF meeting such attempts with E
sardonic sneer, let the world keep its
doors wide open for the coming of this
medical redemption. | am the more
anxious for its coming because many
of the victims Of alcoholism are the
noblemen of the earth, while many tee,
totalers are sober for the simple reason
they arc too stingy to drink. Many ot
the victims of strong drink were under
great nervous tension in discharge oil
public duties. They took stimulants
that they might keep up in great ex-
lgencies, and they were enslaved be-
fore they realized it. What red para
graph that was in the account which
one of these patients under the Kelley
treatment wrote, when he said, My
companions now trying this cure are
merchants, lawyers, doctors, clergymen
and people Of all occupations and profes
sions.' That paragraph is tragedy. If
the victims OF this evil were only the
useless and the bad, their taking off
might be only the abatement of nui.
Sance, but It IS the slaughter of moral
giants that the world needs to stop.
AIl hail DR.. Kelley, or any other man
who tres TO do what you declare you
can do. Kindred with that the race
wants an anti nicotine, or some new
potion that will help men break the
thraIldom in which tobacco holds mill
ions of serfs. A good cigar starts the
intellectual faculties, produces socla
bility, acts for the time as sedative
and puts one into summer OF geniality.
Don't believe it2 Then you have not
tried it. 1t is through these quieting
and inspiring effects that uncounted
mulutudes have been enthralled for all
time. Nine out of ten, yea, ninety-nine
out OF one hundred intelligent men
would like to quit the tobacco habit,
but the struggle is too great for them.
What benedicuon to the human race
would be discovery that would break
this thralldom. Why don't the young
doctors who are waiting for practice
concentrate their energies on this sub
ject2 The herb is now somewhere
growing from which will emancIpate all
the slaves of the quld. Or, you may
have already in your medicine chest the
powders that would do the deed. The
world could afford to give $40, 100000
for one such Introductory pill. But,
says some good man: Religion can
do all this work of rescue; religion is
the best anti nicotine and the best anti
alcoholism don't believe it. When
a man has broken his leg religion can
not mend it; he needs surgeon,
When man has something destructive
in his eye religion will not cure it; he
needs an oculist. When a man has an
obstruction in his ear religion will not
make him hear he needs an aurlst
And when man has become the victim
of rum or tobacco he needs medical
prescription. Religion may strengthen
his high resolution after he has been
freed, but there are physical results that
the grace OF God does not produce.
prove this by the fact that there are
thousands of good ministers of religion
now smoking themselves to death, and
thousands of G. Cd men and women
drinking themselves to death. What
the world wants is two or three pIesCrip-
tions in several directions to do thai
which many hope DR.. keeley's pre-
scriEtion will do in one direction. The
possibilities of such a discovery make
the medical profession sublime beyond
all human estimate. improvement and
invention in sanitary affairs is what the
world wants now. We do not need
any more improvement or discovery in
loComotion we go fast enough. II
you are not satisfied with present speed
nothing would suit you except TO be
shot out of "A FOUNDER. We do moi
need any more improvement In reapine
machines, or binders, or threshers, fol
we have now enough to throw million:
OF people out OF employment. We dc
not need that improvement proposed
in the telephone by which we can no
only hear what some one in the dis.
tauce says, but also see him, an inven
ton that would set all the world to lily
ing in one room, and would be tht
demolition of all privacy. Telegraphl
is quick enough, and we 10 not want t
hear from San Francisco or Liverpool
sooner than minute. But the worlC
| agonizes for improvement and discover
in matters OF physical health, and tina
is field most inviting to all those wh(
have taken medical diplomas. w
want the race to live longer and to b.
more comfortable while they do live
You see the rlce was sliding down hi
for at least $500 years. Almost a
that medicine has done, it has done Il
the last $50 years. You cannot expec
the medical science in $50 years t
undo what $500 years of human ignor
ance, and recklessness and dissipatio
wrought. The common sense ant
Christian attitude for US all to occup
is one OF expectancy, and not one c
derision. The-u> is coming whe
science will conquer consumption, ant
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