Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-09-26
THE KELLEY CURE.
A Graduate Tells His Horrible
Experience.

From the Columbus Index.
1t is altogether fit and proper
that having been treated at the
Kecley Institute, at this place,
thatI should give expression as
to tho nature of my case and the
treatment.
l had used sulph. morphine for
twenty years, was taking at the
time of treatment from fifteen to
twenty grains day. The NOR
phine was withdrawn entirely
within the first four weeks. The
treatment consists of taking hy-
podemic injections four times a
day, and a liquid preparation of
one drachm every two hours dur
ing the day, also warm baths eve
ry other day. The treatment is
comparatively painless. There
were days in which l had at in
tervals uncomfortable sensations,
but had at no time severe pain.
Ihave taken various treatments,
but never before have taken any
without having been crazed for
two or three weeks. Never have
| quit before without suffering
untold agony. Every natural
sensation is intensified until it be-
comes painful. Weariness, weak
ness, cold perspiration, sneezing,
gaping, stretching, weary ting
ling of the surface, ordinary SEN
sation magnifed an hundred fold.
| have had the sensibility so mag
nifed that the touch of the hair
of my hands against the bed
clothes would have produced
spasms if ! had not changed the
position. At the same time | had
a profuse bilious diarrhea, kid
neys discharging every half hour,
great weakness, great coldness,
wcariness and sickness at the
stomach. | have suffered with
the above symptoms five months
at time without relief, when
probably chill or bilious attack
would cause me to take morphine
again, and then l was afloat again
until the next course of treat
ment. Old David, the sweet sim
ger of Israel, expresses this condi-
tion better than any one else has,
when he says: ''The SORROWS of
death compassed me and the pains
of hell got hold of me-
don't ask you, cold, heartless
world, to forgive the morphine
habitue, but to be kind, forbear
ing and sympathetic. God only
knows his trials.
How long must he suffer as
afore described before his patience
is worn out or he relieved!
cannot say. l have suffered time
and again for five months, and ]
have gone back only when endur-
ance was worn out. We can en-
dure for IA short time the most
terrible pain, but this slow and
constant wearing and tearing, from
day to day, and night to night,
never ending, never ceasing, will
wear away the enduring powers
of the stoutest, and the bravest,
and the best after awhile. Re
member another thing, how often
he will shun and avoid the best
friends on earth, for the reason
that he has consciousness that
he can't be agreeable. And that
besetting sin of the morphine
eater, Oh, how great procrasti-
nation ! Procrastination He puts
off everything until it is too late.
Then comes his loss of power to
make and carry out business com
binations.
At times so irritable a. to be a
curse to his family, at other times
he would freely offer a hundred
such lives for their peace, their
comfort and their happiness. In
his dark hours of gloom and de-
spondency (and God knows they
are many what bitter regret and
laments DER the bygone days of
past joys and lost happiness. So
often mistaken ; so often miscon-
strued; so often slighted or neg
lccted, it may be unintentionally,
but at the same time in Il way
that sends the iron deep down in
to his heart.
God pity the morphine habi-
tutee, and God have mercy on
the wretch, whoever he may be,
that would willingly add one
pang to the lives of these poor un-
fortunates. Think of his hours
of evil foreboding, his moments
Of deepest gloom when friends
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