The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
A BABY MORPHINE FIEND.
A Swear Old Victim of the Morphine
Habit Finds Relief in DR..
KeeIey's Great Cure.

Habit Finds Relief in DR..
KeeIey's Great Cure.
DR.. Kelley often has said that his
remedies would not harm an infant. The
case of little Clar Woodwork. the fam
Gus "Keeley baby" has attracted the at
tendon of the press of the whole coun-
try, and is most wonderful and convinc-
ing proof of the truth of DR.. Keeley's
words. The physician in charge tells
the story as follows-it ia of a typical
morphine case:
Mrs. Nora Woodwork, the mother of
this child, whose home is in Jonesville,
VT, came to the Kelley institute for
treatment for morphine on May 1, 1895.
The "Keeley baby" is the youngest of
her children
About five years ago Mrs. Woodwork
was in very poor health, suffering as she
said, from nervous exhaustion, when she
was first given morphine. AS is gener-
ally the case with users of morphine she
became a complete slave to the drug be-
fore she was aware of it. She tried hard
to do without II, but it was an utter fail
ure, whereas under the stimulating in
huencs she could accomplish much, and
SO, as others have done before, day after
day she postponed the time for quitting
its use,
After Mrs. Woodwork had used the
drug for two years the baby, Clara, was
born. She nursed it for ten months, dur
ing which time Clara was not cross and
fretful as many babies are. When the
weaving time came, however, the trouble
began. Nothing quieted the excited and
crying child. The mother knew the
cause; it was not receiving its accus-
toned opiate, which had been furnished
through the blood when she was carry
ing the child) and later through the milk
while nursing.
Morphine had thus become a neces-
sity, and the mother bsgan administer
ing it to the child, all the time thinking
that later on she would break her of the
habit. But at every attempt to give up
the drug SO much suffering came to her
baby that she was compelled to admins
ter more. AnG thus it was administered
until May l, when she came to the
Kelley institute, at which time the child
was taking one and one half grains of
morphine day, and the mother fifteen
grains daily, by the mouth in both cases,
The child's appearance when it began
the treatment was that of fairly
healthy, well-nourished child, only ner-
vous, excitable, and restless, with eyes
constantly searching for something new
to do. Both mother and child began
treatment Immediately. In very few
days the child was eating we'll and
sleeping naturally without morphine.
Her complexion improved, the nervous
ness disappeared, and her intellect,
which was previously bright seemed to
be even brighter, until she attracted
universal attention because of her smart
ness.
At the expiration of three weeks all
remedies were discontinued, and she was
perfectly cured. She was very tractable
in taking treatment, and always took her
medicine without the slightest objection,
and did not call for her powders after
the first few days.
She soon gave herself the name of the
"Keeley Baby" by which she was known
far and wide.
Mrs Woodwork was treated for four
weeks, at the expiration of which time
both went to their home: and l will say
that both went through the treatment
with almost no suffering, and came out
in exceptionally good condition, much
| improved mentally and physically.
That Dr. keeley's cure is efficacious
in morphine and other narcotic drug sd-
dictions, as we'll as in alcoholism is a
fact proven by years of experience and
thousands of cures. Among the class of
twenty to thirty patients constantly under
treatment at the Kelley institute of Kan
! sas City, Kansas, there are always q num-
| Der who are seeking relief from thrall-
dom TO morphine, cocaine, bromidia or
kindred drugs, and they are as certainly
| and permanently cured as are those suf-
| fering only from observation-disclosures
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