The Progress., 1893-08-12

~ .HE announcement that Mr.. ".
9s AIS q. T. Carver Of the Keeley
SMS Institute in New Orleans was
: shreveport working up the organiza-
,ior Of a Keeley Cure Help Club,
aIoa.cd me very much and has set me
tracilig along several lines of thought,
'.artinp from thi, Keelcy cure, an OBJ
"a, and ambition very near to my
art Il is. to sound a note Of warn
mo and if possible to save some unso-
rbisticated. unsu-pecting victim from
hobit worse than the combination of
ubiskey. morphine, and opium, alto
ether Just how to sound this note
tremendously and still loud enough to
reach the desired end has occupied my
limited ability and time for thinking of
such matters. FOR some time. This
Kelley Cure ha, interested me from
scientifc standpoint ever since I first
heard Of it. and - far a. possible.
have watched it, progress with in
ereasing interest. Why such an un-
reasonable. and to me senseless preju-
dice. should exist against it, particu-
larly among physicians i something
cannot understand. True l have not
searched very far, nor very deep for
doctors reasons, but the only one have
heard expressed i, that "the stuff has
not one grain Of chloride of gold in it,
and is only some preparation given to
sicken and disgust a man with liquor or
morphine. =
Certainly. a profession that holds in
its hand so much of the vital question
Of life aud death, oftentimes morally as
we'll as physically, should be exceed
ingly careful in using CT advocating any
new remedy, particularly one that ef-
fects such magnitude of interest to
the present and future as does this
Kelley Cure. II it falls short of all
that has been claimed for it by enthu-
siasts. is it for this reason any the less
worthy than many sovereign remedy
used with great success by eminent
physicians every day? These fail some
times upon peculiar or Idle syncratic
constitutions II il is true that decep-
tiOn is practiced and the patient is
cured, ,either tenn Porarily or permanent
ly as the case may be, by believing that
he is taking chloride of gold, when he
breally taking nothing akin to it,this is
certainly q poor argument against il.
when every physician does exactly the
same thing in his daily practice. Let
one OF them have patient who has. or
imagines he or she has, an idiosyncra
cy for some particular remedy, and that
particular medicine is indicated. that
physician Immediately proceeds to
fool" that medicine into that idiOsyn-
cratic stomach, somehow.
And he does exactly right too. If
Imagination can be made to help a ply
slcal cure, it should undoubtedly be
used to that effect. | have heard it
stated, not by physician however, that
this keeley Cure is very prostrating. |
have never seen a patient treated with
1t but fromocertain posting that L have
had from medical literature. think
perhaps the prOstratiOn is attributed
10 the wrong cause, and my belief is
that the whisky or morphine destroys
the nerve force and vigor, which when
once begun as a habit, necessitates its
continuance TO stimulate this wasted
lorce. Keeley cure kills the appetite
Tor these deadly false supports but does
not supply the wasted strength. This
however can be regained through the
many excellent nerve tonics easily pre-
pared by a physician, and it should not
initiate in the least against so valuable
boon to man, and to blameless but suf-
iering wives and children. Ia sub
stance, if the Kelley Cure has done
much good and little if any harm, why
exists such prejudice against it? L
would thank some physician, who has
studied the matter to answer me this,
and broaden and enlighten me, If | am
narrow aud ignorant in my reasoning.
30 lar, L havetraveled along one line of
thought only, will take up another,
encompassed with greater entan-
clement, but OF still greater interest to
mankind, with the word cocaine" l
have seen the effects of this most dead
iy soul-destroying poison upon more
than one helpless victim, and the hor-
ror and dread of it will follow me
through life. At times its victims are.
IN transport of Joy the world is iliu-
mined with hope and success just with
IN easy, reach Of their eager ambition,
again the inferno with all OF its horrors
Is Dresantad IN thair distot.fad imapi-