The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-09-28

to relieve.
@. While it is not pleasant to refer in
print to ones individual weakness or
misfortune, will you not for the good of
humanity tell the readers of The Weekly
if you were benefited by the treatment
and if you regard your cure as perma-
nent?
A. | don't like the implied apology in
your question. OF course in a general
way one does not care TO advertise a mis-
torture, still less a personal weakness /;
but, if by relating my misfortune | can
keep one of my fellow men from falling
into the same habit or in any way aid any
one already a slave to opium in breaking
its chains, | feel it my duty to do so.
Was | benefited by the treatment? If
going to the Kelley institute well-nigh a
physical, nervous and mental wreck,
without vitality sufficient to support life
a day without the drug and coming away
a new man, in mind and body, hope once
more with its attendant aspirations awak-
ened, opium torpor gone, then benefited"
is a very mild term. Cured and abso-
lutely so, can only express what feel
and know my condition to be. Again as
to the permanencY Of my cure, | have
not the slightest taste or desire for opium
in any shape, or for its effects, no more
han if l had never heard of the drug.
If this can be taken as any index of the
fact, then my cure is permanent.
@. Did you see others afflicted as you
were, benefited by the Kelley treatment
A. Yes, | saw many opium habitues
treated and cured. None could doubt the
cures who saw the cases as | did, both on
their arrival and departure.
@. Would you advise others similarly
afflicted to try the treatment?
A. Yes, | advise all to go and be cured.
| consider taking the Kelley treatment
not as making a trial" but as being cured
both as to the opium and liquor habits.
@. From your observation at the insti-
tute do you think the cure of the liquor
habit as effected there will be lasting?
A. In the light of events, in the face
of 100000 witnesses, men rescued from
its thraldom and restored to their fami-
lies, clothed and in their right minds, in
view of my own observation as an eye
witness, your inquiry, Do you think the
Kelley cure for the liquor habit effective
and lasting, is more simple" thar Child
like" I saw patients from every grade
of society and culture, all ages, from the
youth on his "irst legs to the old soaks
of twenty years standing. talked with
all, from the simple mechanic to the
most cultivated and learned, and the tale
was the same one-of life weary with a
bondage they could not shake of-these
men carried honesty written on their
sobered faces, yet almost to a man they
had tried again and again in vain to
break the chains of the tyrant whiskey.
| remember n young gentleman, IN
telling me his experience, said II know
it was my fault in c%ultivating the whis-
key drinking habit, but | did not realize
my danger until too late to help myself.
l saw myself going down into the gutter,
a drunkard's grave only a little further
on. / thought Of what | had been, yet !
could not stop" AS this young man,
with moist eye and quivering lip, told
how he, in his struggle to abandon strong
Il rip6 bod lai1 hi1 rinht hand on tho
holy bible and sworn before his creator
that he would drink 10 more, that he
had locked himself in his room, thrown
the key from the window, all in vain
what an object lesson for the straight
laced, who say anybody can quit whiskey
or opium if he wishes to and sheer at
Kelley Institutes. | tell you, sir, the
cure of the whiskey habit by the Kelley
treatment is as certain as anything that
is in the future can be. | have taken
hearsay for none of this. | have taken
nobodY's word. state only what have
seen. As to cures of the whiskeY drink
ing habit being permanent, | saw many
graduates, TX whiskey men who visited
the institution, three to six months after
being cured, also Dwight, ILL.,, graduates,
all say the thirst for whiskey was gone
and they felt their cure to be for life.
Q. What about the cost?
A. Cost for four weeks, $130 90, treat
ment 800 90, board, washing baths $50
90.
q. Is the fare good and are the rooms
comfortable and clean?
A. Yes.
Q. Are patients kindly treated
A. Especially so, every one is kindly
and patiently heard and treated. Any
thing like compulsion is carefully
avoided. a gentlemanlY attendant, an
ex. keeleyi.e. is placed with each patient
until he is able to take care Of himself.
The manager W. Fl. Osborn, Esq, is a
prince amongst clever fellows and is IS
courteous and respectful as it is possible
for any one to be. DR.. Durham, the ply