The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1892-03-31

The following are samples of statements
made by those who have beenIcured:
''If had the feeling that am using the
least bit of will power to refrain from
drinking [ would be afraid of myself, but,
on the contrary, never think of it any
more than if had never tasted whisky"
From another: 81 have not one particle
of craving for alcohol, and if l ever go back
to drinking again it will be from pure
cuSSedneSS, and from no other reason"
Another question asked is: What are
the effects of the treatment ?' All the evil
dence goes to show that it effects complete
restoration. The common expression. "a
complete wreck" tells the whole story of
the inebIiate's mental and physical con-
ditiOn. Keep liquor away, from him TWEEN
ty-One days and ne would be dead. When
patients return after twenty-One days of
treatment, they look and act as though
they had been made over. Complexion
fresh, all that blOated, carewOrn look gone
and in manner are pleasant companion
able gentlemen. They all tell chow good
they feel" Simply breaking off from
whisky that length of time would have
just tn opposite effect, ana in many cases
would result in death. The results show
they are men again, just as God intended
them to be. The dOnb'e chloride of gold
successfully cOpes with this mighty evil.
Giving the Injection.
In the lobby on the second floor the hy-
podermic injections are administered. 1t
Is referred to as the ''Shot tower" ''target
grounds" or shooting gallery" Injec-
tions are given four times day. at $50 a.
M, IL M, p. m. and 80 p. m. AS the
hours approach the patients may be seen
issuing from the various apartments. With
one of the arms barred, they fall in line.
Quietly the first man advances along the
hall and approaches little table where
stands the physician of the institute, a tiny
syringe in his hand. On the table is lit
tie porcelain trough filled with the pink
chloride of gold. AS the patient ap-
who, with swift, firm touch, inserts the
nozzle of the syringe under the patients
skin, empties it of the healing liquid ana
the painless operation Is done. This is the
main and most important feature of the
Kelley cure. The amount varies with the
condition of the patients. The practice Is
first to sober, next to destroy the want and
desire and lastly build up the system
against future attacks. Kelley claims that
alcoholism, viewed from its physiological
standpoint, is disease. The chief mis-.
chief is done by alcohol before it OXidized
and while 1t yet circulates through the Sys-
TEN as alcohol. Acute alcoholism is cauS-
ed by an isomeric change produced upon
the alcohol coming in actual contact with
the nerve tissue itself. In this state it is
disease and all that the term implies-a
disease of the ancient origin. In the mid
die ages alcoholism held high carnival.
fastening remOrselesS grip on the human
family and leaving its impress in the taint
that passed on down the l ne. So does the
pathology of the sO-called habit show it
often inherited. Working on this base
Kelley made his experiments, perfected
his remedies and the Des MOines Institute
is now daily sending back into the world
useful members of society.
A curious study of human nature is to be
seen in the line OF men as they approach
the physician to the hypOdermic injection.
The past, present and future OF strong
mems lives are combined in the expression
of their cNuntenanceS. With the old marks
that despair has left there is the brighten
ing luster of daWning hope. There are
men but recently arrived, in whom the re-
gret for the immediate past is still alive,
the half doubtful patient, but now realiZ-
ing that there is promise in the foreground,
| and the strong confidence of the GONZALES
| ent. Not less careless in its antitheses
| than the expression of countenance is the
| diversity of rank and interest. The
wealthy and artisan, lawyers and doctors,
artists and newspaper men, men of letters
and men of action, all are represented.
There is no respect paid person, and each
stands shoulder to shoulder with the next
conner despite the custom of rank.
Few Relapses.
The efficacy of the Kelley cure is posi-
tive. Unless man who goes there for re
| demption resists with all his might the
rules and regulations governing the insti-
| tute, ne is bound in spite of himself to lose
| his appetite for the accurSed liquor, and he
will leave Des Moines or Cherokee happy,
| cured; enthusiastic, and missionary for
the gold cure cause. He cannot help him
| self. Not more than five per cent of the
patrons relapse, and this Is probably too
| large an estimate. In few days the pa
| tient feels that it would be impossible to
| swallow a drop of spirituOus or malt Ii
quors. He RECEIVERS his natural appetite,
sleeps naturally, forgets that he has any
| nerves, and feels that he is in the best
sense a new man. 1t makes no difference
whether the man suffers from the liquor,
| opium, or tobacco habit-the bichloride of
gold stralghtenS him and causes him to
voluntarily abandon every poison and
stimulant that he has been taking. The
medicine has already proven an almost in
| fallible remedy for a disease more wide
| spread and deadly in its effects than all
other diseases combined. Too much can
not be said of a remedy that has saved to
the world thousands of intelligent and
| noble minded men and many beautiful and
| gentle minded women. In these days of
| quacks and eharlatanS, vendors OF nos
trums and inanities that gambol as lambs
on the materia medica green, a man with
power to save himself gone trusts little
the power of another. But any drinking
man can be cured at the Des Moines insti-
| tute. Drunkenness with the patient is a
| disease. Slowly, perhaps, did the patient
mark his malady. The occasional drink
passed into the regular with the pleasant
ardent garnishment OF boa constructors
with red eyes or navy blue spiders with
pink abdomens. The Keeley cures are the
gates of egress They are simple, certain,
and sure. Every patient who has gradu-
ated at the Kelley Institute at Des Moines,
and some of the cures here have been mar
yeIous, is anxious TO herald the virtue of
the cure. Every one is imbued with the
desire TO save other victims, and straight
way informs his acquaintance, neighbOES
and friends OF his good fortune, and urges
them to induce those in need Of the Keeley
treatment 70 make a pilgrimage TO Des
Moines and get q few of the shots which
are sure death TO King Alcohol and any OF
his descendants. The liquor problem has
at last been solved. In most cases men
drink or take opium because their diseased
nerves force them to seek temporary re-
lief. When their nerves are restored to
their normal condition they are all right
and cannot be persuaded TO try etimulants
or opiates. Every man who feels any In
terest in the welfare OF bis fellows, should
look into the matter and make up his Judg-
menk