The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-10
SuHsEs THE DRINK HABIT.

CURES FOR THE DRINK HABIT
Since Kelley started his cure scores of
other cures have arisen around the coun-
try At first they patterned after Kelley
amt started institutes where alcoholic
patients were TO reside and take the treat
ment. but 1t was soon found there was
more money to be had by selling patent
medicines advertised to cure the drink
hablt TO the million than running an in
stitute for the few. Only a few men can
Afford to go to the institute and paw for
board, medicines and treatment at the
prices generally charged, while tens of
thousands can easily pay the price of a
Flew bottles OF medicine.
The New York Sun says:
The sales OF the patent medicines to destroy
Eshs drink habit are running into the tens of
Ethcdsands OF bottles, and the drug stores are
Epiacarding their windows with the advertise
iIhenis. This has injured the business of the
t7nstisutes and the specialists who undertake to
iFfeas the drink habit privately. The most pri-
tFate way 10 for a man to keep a bottle of patent
iIhedicine in his room, aud to take drinks OF il.
y Ii also the cheapest The ingredients of these
Ipatent medicines for the drink habit are SINH
gar TO the standard physicians prescrI ptions
eor foning up q mans syetem aud getting him
"a u lt n ueCu uEiDhInE 10 excess
eor some time. They are the recognized bro
ridcs for quoting the nerves: potash. spirits of
ammonia, and other drugs. which any druggist
teta put up In tae morning for a man with a
pig head. Then there are stimulants TO
ItiTeOgthen the action of the heart aud TO throw
pr the effect OF the liquor from the system.
These are well known IN their common names,
Put put up in a patent medicine. with some
hIng to make them taste bad ani a fancifui
PANE they pass Tor something uncommon and
wonderful.
With these patent medicines 60 ~instruc-
tons about diet, sleep and exercise. and
fe San thinks that obedience TO these
lrections have more to do with the
fcare' OF the d~runkari. SO called, than
nie drugs. The food ordered is OF the sort
nat would naturally abate the desire for
lcohol. if not absolutely eliminate it:
Ind with simple, nourishing diet, plenty
IF sleep, regular hours and habits Of out
door exercise ni~ne-tenths of these hard
drinkers would rapidly improve withou.
| my drugs or tonics whatever. That is
shout all there is to these 'patent medi-
Gre cures" and 8 writer in the current
number OF the arena thinks that there is
rloshing more to the bi-chlorids OF gold
treatment of DR.. Kelley; it is, where it is
| effective, a "mind cure" rather than any
| thing else: it enables a man to reach the
raopd of self-restraint and genuine aspira-
tioA for sobriety.
The conclusion of Henry Wood in the
Arcaln is that under the so-called bi-ch!o-
ride of gold treatment Of Dr. Kelley q verv
large number of radical and positive cures
have taken place. Mr.. Wood grants that
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paints out that the record of cures j. re-
marhablY large when We remember that
the Kelley cure has been n last resort
with tile vast majority of its patients.
Mr.. Wood on the other hand cites the fact
thai the most eminent physicians and ex-
perts in this country and Earope are
unanimous III the opinion that inebrletv
cdnssot he cured by the use OF any drug or
medicine whatsoever.
nr. William 4. Hammond, in the North
american Retl tt0 Ter September. 1897, SAID:
Itnay be stated. with perfect confidence IN
the absolute correctness Of tka assertion, tha.
tasre s no medicine OF combination of neil
zines that will cure a peFsoa 1T the haaGt of
drunkenness: that -. that Will destroy ais or
her hsDtt or appetite for alcoholic IQUars. IT
may IL incidentally stated vita equal rast tive
hess that there is no hat4t. whether # cn,ara.,
opium. hashisa. or any other intoxicating sub
stasfas, tina. caa he cured by 1zes.etue. ana
svea further. taat tHeEe = Uo habit o. arngt.ts
whsteYer II which maak.ui j Sutec; that can
he got Ri Of - drugs, whether II b. drinking
cafSs, Or smoking tobacco. or taking a wa.
every day Sc = particular hour. or going 10 hei
81 4 certain time
2tenlssen. in his encyclopedia Of Me3i-
cine very high authority. saws: I'VE
possess no medicine which can act a. a