The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-08-21
HOPE FOR INEBRIATES.
TILE WORLD PRESENTS NOTHING
So Successful In Medicine ns tho heeiey
Treatment for Liquor and Opium Dis
sases-The Work ne Point Breeze.
Lcorre.pondence Riehmond Time..l

NrwPoRr NEWS. August 20.-There are
few subjects the uses and abuses OF which
have elected more varying shades OF opin-
ion than those OF liquor and opium.
In view OF their occasional useful ness
as therapeutic agents on the one hand and
the awful destruction of human happiness
and human life they occasion on the other,
it is not strange that there should be grow
ing sentiment that they might well be dis
pensed with in the interests OF a common
humanity. Whether this be tenabie posi-
ton or otherwise one thing will be admitted.
and that is the diseases produced by both
have never. until the discovery by Or.
Leslie r. Kelley. been treated successfully
in this or any other country. IL has been
easy enough ordinarily to sober man up.
but the thorough elimination not only OF
the disease but the taste for the stun that
produced il has been left for the genius Of
DR.. Kelley 20 discover and apply. IL Is
therefore not wonderful that 1t IS to-day
known and appreciated wherever the de-
structive agencies of whisky and opium
have been at work making drunkards, I'M
beetles, paupers or criminals.
The demand for the treatment has kept
pace with its reputation as a curative agent
until it's birthplace in the small western
town Of Dwight can nolOnger accommodate
all IF the victims of alcohol and opium. and
for that reason, as well as to render the
treatment more accessible 20 all who may
seek its aid. Kelley Institutes have been es-
tablisbed in all of the States and Territories
of the Union. That for Virginia has been
located at Newport News. and in place
that is at least the equal If not superior in
point Of surroundings and advantages 70
any of the others Here men who have
been wrecked in body and estate by hquor
opium or other insidous drugs. are coming
TO see what the double chloride of gold can
do for them.
This is what it does: 1t banshes forever
all appetite that had chung 10 them with the
tenacity of The Old Man Of the Sea" and
which they were pOwerless q shake on,
try they never so hard. IL builds up those
tissues which have IN affinity for alcohol
ana drugs rendering them whole or healthy
and restoring them 10 a normal condition.
He may not have had a surfeit with his past
experience aud 60 20 drinking again, but
those who do so after taking the Kelley
treatment are but few in number, perhaps
one-twentleth OF those treated. a man may
make an unsuccessful attempt at suicide
but he seldom makes a second trial. The
Kelley cure is unlike any other remedy tor
the twin maladies OF liquor and opium,
which are like unto no other diseases. They
need special and constant treatment
The man who goes TO a Kelley institute
goes voluntarily He is not submitted to
any Of the degrading features of asylum
and bars-but u allowed free
dom more IN keeping with the demands of
self-respect -Four times each daY lie visits
the Office and receives hypodermio injections
OF the double chloride of gold. He takes
internally a prescribed tonic. and on COM
the treatment and untn he refuses
il Of his own accord. he is given all the
whisky that he requires. In three weeks.
or four 81 the outside if he be dipsomaniac.
q week or two longer if he be an opium
fend. he is cured. Powerful but painless
remedies have been at work upon his sys-
tenn. The appetite desire craving. call it |
what you will, is removed. so that when tho
patient leaves the Institute whisky and |
opium are 20 him as things that never were.
He no longer has any necessity for them. |
either real or imaginary.
These facts are already demonstrate. |
You have but TO find man in your own |
vicinage who has ever taken the treatment |
at the Institute TO be convinced OF this |
truth, and If you do not know them write 20 |
the manager at Newport News. Va. and he |
will give you the names, by permission. of /
well-known parties ia various sections OF |
the State who have been made whole by the /
use of the Kelley remedies.