Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-06-25
LETTERS FROM THEPEoPLE

Naugatuck Citizens Denounce q Conn
munication Written to the World BY ~
Doctor of That Place. u
To the Editor of the DEMocRAr:
We desire to enter our protest and seal
with our disapproval the article written
from Naugatuck, Connecticut. by homeo-
pathic physician of four months residence
here.
We consider his article false and mis-
leading; no matter how good his inten-
tons were in writing the same. He has
| never taken the Kelley treatment, but has
lived long enough in Naugatuck to know
that there are thirty-six living here to-day
who have taken the Kelley treatment some
at Dwight, Illinois, several at White
Plains, New York, and others at Savin
Rock, Connecticut, during the past three
years. Nearly all of them had taken quite
freely of whiskey. beer and wine and they
have Dever drank any intoxicating liquors
since they have left any of the Kelley in
stitutes.
They were not lead away by any quack
remedy, they knew well what they were
doing when they took the Kelley treat
ment and know better than anyone out
side of their own family the lasting bene-
fits they have derived from such treatment.
What right has this doctor to write in the
manner he has, and say that "cures are
impossible from the Kelley treatment"
when right under his own eyes and from
his Office window, he can see men pass and
| repass on our public streets, living evil
dence that he is mistaken and is doing an
| injury to his fellow men by writing in the
manner he has? We can understand how
man that wants to foster the drink habit
can write against his fellow men taking
medicine or any scientific treatment that
ia hnnAfiniQI tn him
stand how the unbiased and unprecedented
| citizen that is living in a town where the
Kelley treatment has done so much good
as in Naugatuok could write against it.
What must his motive be? Perhaps to
| let the people know that there is a certain
| doctor in town and by that advertise his
practice. If so, he has gained one point,
but what will it amount to in the end
What if he should write of the surgeon
who cut off a mans leg or the wrong finger
| when he could save it if he knew his bust
ness, wonder if he would condemn the
practice of surgery? What if physician
should cause the death of any person by
his negligence or unskillfulness? Would
he condemn all the physicians? Certainly
not. Why then criticize the Kelley treat
ment. If five or ten in a hundred fail to
reap any benefit from said remedy, when
you find some men who don't want to stop
using Intoxicating liquors and are bound
not to stop and even if they did wantsto
refrain using liquor or beer and only
ninety out of every hundred would de-
rive any benefit from the Kelley treat
ment, would any fair minded citizen con-
denim it? Certainly not. But call it one
of the greatest medical discoveries of the
present age to cure the disease and appe-
tite for intoxicating drinks. Those who |
criticize and condemn the Kelley treat |
ment don't know what they are talking or
writing about. We who have attended |
Kelley institutes are only few of the |
thousands who can testify to the benefits |
that come from such treatment Anyone
that has given the Kelley remedy fair |
trial knows upon what premises they are |
speaking and writing and those that are
addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors |
and have craving appetite for the same,
if they will take the Kelley treatment, give
the remedy fair trial, follow the direc- |
tons laid down at the institutions
will come out winners in the end. The |
Kelley treatment does all that
Doctor Kelley claims for it, namely, take
away the appetite for intoxicating LIQUORS, |
place hard drinker of liquor, beer and |
wine where he was before he ever drank a |
drop of the stuff, build him up physically
and make him feel stronger, healthier and |
brighter than he has since he first COM
menced to use liquor in any form. The
cry that DIR Kelley and the Kaeley insti- |
tutes are making money out of the remedy |
is no argument against it. Every man and
woman that takes the treatment and finds |
an effectual cure from the use of intoxicat- |
ing liquors are better off than all the |
money they ever paid out to any Kelley |
institute. Millions of dollars have been |
made in railroads. telephones, telegraphs, |
in iron and rubber industries, still that is |
no argument why they should be con-
demned. Over one hundred and fifty |
thousand have taken the Kelley treatment |
in this country and it has been adopted by |
the United States government for use in |
twenty eight national and state soldiers
and sailors homes. Very few cities in this |
country but have sent subjects to such in
situations. Men in all walks of life have
taken this treatment; in nearly every CITY
and town in Connecticut anyone can find |
the good effects of the Keeley treatment |
The doctor that condemns the Keeley |
treatment must be filled with some |
gigantic fad. About all of the physicians
in Naugatuck approve of the Kelley treat |
ment and the leading physicians of this |
country have of late testified to its bene-
fits. The best evidence of the Keeley |
treatment is the men and women that |
come from the institutions cured from the |
use of intoxicating liquors. The rich and |
poor partake of this same treatment and |
mingle together at the institutions as one
common family. They are there for one
common object. The follow with one
dollar in his pocket is respected. land re-
ceives as much attention as the man with a |
million. They all stand together on COM
mon ground, receiving this scientific |
treatment which has proven a blessing to |
thousands of homes. If this doctor will |
only take the pains to visit any of the large |
institutions and find there the young man |
of twenty-one and the old man of seventy
five, and the middle aged man, coming 70 |
the institution as total wrecks, whom ply
sicians have said they could not assist |
from the appetite of Intoxicating drink |
and find them inside of two weeks with |
good appetites, with their health restored |
and their general appearance better than it
has been in several me nths or years as the
case my be, if he means to be honest and
sincere in this matter, he will be writing
words of praise in favor of said treatment.
We have no financial interest in any of |
these institutions, but we consider it our
duty to speak and write in favor of a
remedy that we know from experience is a
benefit to nearly all that have taken the
same.
CHARLES HokDIEY