San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-16

Some Testimony About the Kelley
Cure.
Boston Advertiser
At the Conference OF Charities,
which has just adjourned, special
session was given to the Kelley treat
ment of inebriates lat Dwight. ILL.,,
and 10 many other places with
bichloride. Of gold, atropine
and other powerful alternatives
which take away the appetite
for liquor and restore the victim of
his thirst to temperance, at least for
time. The testimony on this point
was surprising in rs much AS 1t
came from physicians who are skep.
ticsl as to the specific. but have seen
good results In majority of cases.
DR.. Walworth, Chairman of the ILL
nois Board of state Charities, was one
OF these witnesses He lives in south.
ern Illinois Gust Outside Egypt,
and he told OF one of his own patients
who had gone SO far in drink that he
had been In the habit Of drinking
gallon of whisky day. His old
appetite was entirely cradicated by
the Kesley treatment-how long this
would last DR.. Walworth could not
cay, but he knew the fact was so
now.
DR.. Barnes. of Bloomington, Ill +,
another member of the State Board
and q physician who has been super
intendent of the insane hospital at
Anna, Ill and now has charge of in
sane patients in 81. Joseph's hospital
at Bloomington, was the next wit
ness. He eaid that in his Utmost
mind he believed the Kelley treat
ment is o humbug. OF eighty pa
ktien ts, however, whom he bad known,
hardly one had returned to the ALEC.
Mol habit. He estimated that 80 per
Icent Of the drunkards In the world
will not recover without special treat
ment. One of his own patients in
private practice had become insane
under the treatment, but DR.. Barnes
did not asciibe this wholly. to the
stropine and other drugs used by DR..
Kelley. whose asylum is within iosty
miles of Bloomington.
A Denver clergyman, the Rev.
Thomas Uzzel, then made q most re-.
msrkable statement which seemed to
be confirmed by his tellow-citizens,
among whom he lie highly regarded.
He said that he bought the bichloride
of gold formula from an agent. aud
had used Ii successfully In the last
six months on 200 patients. He said
he was not physicion, and did not
care to lock horns with doctors, but
the cure certainly does its work. Dat
of the 200 graduated only two had
fallen from grace; he was willing TO
take his reputation as q minister of
the Gospel on the fact that the cure
will take the appetite for liquor en-
tirely away, and If q graduate returns
to the habit il will not be because of
his old thirst fos strong drink.
DIR. Richard Dewey, of the great
state asylum for the insane at Kan
kakee, ILL.,. read q careful medical
paper, in which he reviewed eight
cases of the Kelley "cure" that had
come into his asylum; and in three OF
these he thought the insanity was
due, at least in part, to the admins
tration of the "dose' and the "shot'
at the Kelley institute. In consider
ing the elements Of the Kelley treat
ment he took the position that the
cure consists largely in this-the pa
tients are heavily dosed with power
full drugs, losing all their appetite for
stimulsDts. They are partially para
lyzed. mentally and physically, and
impressed with the belief that re-.
markable change has taken place in
their system. Hypnotic suggestion
might enter into the result, which,
however, was remarkable i'm several
ways.