St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-14
KILL OR CURE.
One of Keeley's Dwight Patients
Lying at Deaths Door.

Lying at Deaths Door.
Is the Dwight cure for the liquor habit
safe? Is not the treatment to which
patients are subjected down there harm
full 10 the system of the patient?
These are questions that are being
asked in Minneapolis every day. On
the heels of the news of the death of
young James Fair, of California, said to
be from the Dwight treatment, comes
the information that Minneapolis men
who have taken that treatment are dan
gerously i'll, and it is said that their all
mentS emanate from the treatment
received at Dwight. These ques-
tiOnS are interesting at this time
because Minneapolis has contributed a
large number-mOre than most people
have any idea of-to the throngs that
have lined up day after day to be prod
ded with DR.. Keeley's little syringe.
Scores of business men have gone from
this city, many of them under assumed
names, to the depository of snakes and
'jags."
Among the men who have recently
returned from Dwight is Harry Cramer,
we'll known for the active part he has
taken III the politics of the Twelfth
ward. Mr.. Cramer is now dangerously
i'll. 1t is said that his illness was caused
by what he went through at Dwight.
knowledge of his condition came to the
GLOBE at late hour last night, so that
there was no opportunity TO ascertain
the exact nature of his disease. 1t is
understood that he is suffering from
erysipelas, the erysipelas resulting from
the frequent punctures in the arm re-
ceived at Dwight.
The manner of treating patients at
Dwight has b cen thoroughly explained
in the columns of the daily papers.
Every morning hundreds of men are
formed into line and are given hyp0-
dermlc injections of the cure. And here
comes in question that is of peculiar
interest to Minneapolitans because
something of the same kind has
been before them recently. What
measures are taken to clean
that hypodermic syringe after it
fore it is used on another. SO far as
known. one syringe is made to do serv-
ice for scores Of patients at time, and
it is used on them as fast as they can
walk past the administering physician.
In the course of three weeks of this
treatment patient receives not less
than fifty Of these perforatiOnS, perhaps
more. If the same syringe be used on
several patients in succession with
out being subjected to any sort
of scientific cleansing. is it
not possible that a disease may
be communicated from one man to
another? This matter of communicating
erysipelas, for example. in this manner
was effectually aired in the papers few
weeks ago through the inquest over one
OF the dead patients of Girrbach, the
needle lloctor.'' The physicians who
testified before the corOner's jury were
confident that erysipelas could be com
municated by the doctors needles if
they were not cleaned thoroughly be-
fore being used on two patients in sue
cession. If so, why cannot the disease
be communicated by DR.. Keeley's
syringe?
Many well-known physicians of Min
neapolis have given it as their opinion
that the treatment at Dwight has a
deleterious effect upon mans system,
especially upon his brain. Among the
doctors who think so is Coroner W. j.
Byrnes.
MIR. Cramer's case will be watched
with good deal of interest, both by the
physicians and by the men and women
who have been haiting the Kelley cure
as the one thing that would wipe ont
the liquor habit. At the same time
comes news of the serious illness of a
prominent lawyer who has but recently
returned from Dwight. He has not
been out of the house since he returned.
and he is said to be in dangerous con-
ditiOn.