Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-18
Bl.cHLoREpg OF GOLD.

chloride of gold war, out of which the
public will gain important facts that are
greatly wanted. It blazes out here and
there in the shape of attacks on the
Kelley method OF cure of dipsomania
whenever a relapse occurs or an ex-
patient passes across the dark river, no
matter what may be the immediate
cause. After DIR. Mines had published |
most able magazine article on the |
subject of the Keeley cure, citing him
self, an old and confirmed topper, as an
example of its efficacy, he unfortunately
relapsed and died. The anti-Keeleyites
made great use OF this unhappy case;
but were careful not to place DIR. Mines
among the per cent who admittedly go
back to their cups. The 95 per cent
who don't are yet to be heard from.
The death few days since of young
James G. Fair, graduate from the
! Dwight institute, is now attributed by
the antis to the bi-chloride of gold treat
ment. The autopsy showed that he died
of heart diseases but it is claimed that
the treatment is favorable to the devel-
! opment of that disease. One might also
think it possible that excessive drinking
for term OF years had also something
to do with the condition of young Fairs
heart.
At the close of the last Christmas hol
idays, Robert Duncan Milne, a we'll
known San Francisco bohemian, a man
of fine education, and brilliant writer,
but one who glories in the fact that he
is a bibber of all kinds of exhilarating
: potables, and only feels truly happy
when ''clinking the cannikin" and ca
rousing with flowing beakers of John
Barleycorn took the queer notion that
he would try the effect of the Keeley
treatment upon himself. He ad nits
that he had no desire to be cured of the
drink habit, because he liked it and
never had experienced any of the bad
, after-effects usually felt by other people
as the consequence of debauch. But
he had the curiosity to see whether the
gold cure would take away his desire for
liquor. He submitted himself to the
treatment at the new branch institution
recently established at Los Gatos, and
was discharged cured, with the proviso,
as placed on the books, If he desired to
remain SO. Milne returned to San Fran
cisco, and in few days engaged in his
old occupation of kalsomining the town
couleur de rouge. OF course if tippler
has no desire to give up his tipple, there
is no cure for him, and that is the end
of criticism.
But now comes another phase in the
/, bi-chloride war, and this is real, genuine
: revolution inside the camp of the gradu
ates of the Keelev institute themselves
the 95 per cent who have been actu-
ally cured. This revolt has its rise from
the fact that the head.center club,at
Dwight of all the bi-chloride clubs Dr.
ganized in various parts OF the upioE, by
those who have been cured, arrogates to
itself supreme power and gathers in all
the shekels contributed by the new
members before leaving the institute.
All the outside clubs have sent delegates
to Dwight to meet in convention, and
they are going to discipline the greedy
Dwight club, put it on an equal footing
with all the other clubs, and establish
: grand central body elected from all the
} clubs in the organization to take charge
of the supreme affairs of the Bi-Chlor-
ide of Gold Order.
But the Dwighters are going to fight
for their assumed rights to the bitter
end, and as they have DIR. Kelley with
them they will probably be able to make
it sultry for the insurgent bi-chloriders.
The convention is now on, and its pro
ceedings will be looked for with intense
interest by the Dwight graduates.
: The general public, however, will give
carful attention to the proceedings of
this convention that bear upon the work
of the Keeley cure. This representative
: body will undoubtedly give us official
and reliable facts upon the interesting
, subject of the actual results produced
by the Keeley method. We are now
told by DR.. Kelley that ninety-fve
out of every one hundred patients
treated for drunkenness at his
institute are permanently cured of the
drink habit. As, however, the Keeley
institution is carried on aso money
making establishment, the public are
: not inclined to place implicit reliance
in his statements. But convention of
the graduates of the institute would be
able to bring out the facts and throw a
flood of light upon the results of the
treatment. If DIR. Kelley really has a
method by which 95 per cent of the
drunkards subjected to his treatment
are cured, its Importance to mankind is
so great and its consequences are SO
fraught with benefits to the human
family, that no doubt of deception or
empiricism should be permitted to
weaken the stupendous fact.
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