Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-02-01

| dec'ir ed TO give any Information saying that il
would be unprofessiona.. But having learned The
| names of som,e of those whom he had sent Il
| Dwight hey were Board OF Trade men-I hat
| them seen but hey re used To ia X and curt i!
| said It was nobois's business. However l man
| aged TO learn from their personal friends, tha
! viii e they rad been hard drinkers, they were
perfectly straight ever since they returned fl ON
| Dwight and they were inducing some of then
| drinking Tier DIS to try the new remedy which
| seemed 10 be durable.
My next step to send medical student
down 10 Dwight who was somewhat eddie ed to
liz or, to find out what he could about the nature
| of the new cura aud try it on himself by way Of
experiment, and to stay there und r an assumed
pame. s. hat 'r. Keeley should not know his real
business or who sent him. He came tack in a
form ght reported to me that remarkable
cures doubtediv being made, AID that he
rea " believed Re was permanently relieved OF
his Own thirst for iq uor, and hat he met persons
th=re who h wing been relieved OF their dripk
habit brirgin- in incorporate file de Of
ii $. some rom N sSOu /, low | diana md
ether states including Illinois But he was unable to
re me the compost ion Of the med cine dminis-
tered, a'pt tina. it Gale by the doctor
double-cl loride of Id but he d. cribe its act
lon on the patients, som Of whom had arrived
the insti ute dead drunk, and othe s. with
snakes in their boots, rfect'y marvellous
AS far my Young doctor could ascertain the
appear d to be per panent, a. thai 1t Def
sroyed the mania for ink, and left no evil f.
fects behind ii on The patient health col stitu-
ii n
TIL Is it looked as II cure for he awful evil of
Gi somania had at ast been disc vered. But
tie news seemed TO go d to tie true. AT this
time Lad never seen Dr. Keel y, nor ever cor
resp nded with him; bur Woe, aski1 him
number of point questions about his so-caled
gold cure it's discovery, histp,y and action on
patients. He repli ID. claiming tha it was an alb
sol e specific; that ingredients were perfectly
innocent doctors used The word, that he had
cured may CO fr,ned kards, and lad ne 7er
Observed any / fec on the general health OF
patients that could b. traced to his remedies and
that the r, lapses Used on several year expert
ence had not exc eded five per cent. After some
further CORES pcndence DR.. Kelley explained to
m his theor, that the drink habit degenerated
into disease KIN ,wn dpsomania; that the ef-
feet of alcohol on tn blood and germ-cells the
body ana nerve centers of the brain was that Of
poison; in short, thai a man addicted to liquor
was pc son d. apd he Gained to have g.
cDNeTcU All ANU iOtc WHICH SApcAcu lue poisOA
wit hour injury to the sys EN-.
TIC prove his faith in his theory and remedy he
made me his proposition: That SHOULD select
and send him half dozen Of the most coz firnied
inebriafes aad hope wrecks of alcoholism 10
be found IN Chicago; and he did not object IL
some wer, morphine ii nds as wei as whisky
bloa s, and IL did not matter il any or all of hem
were deive' ed t him in state Of delirium tire
ln1 Skn,,
alive. And If he failed to return each and all to
me within a month of their reception by him
comp etc cured, he would defray all their ex-
penc at Dwight, including medical treJtmenr,
board and washing, and if he failed to to my
c mple'e satisfaction he won make public con-
iession Of the failure Il his remed es. The chal
enge was so bola nd start ing that at once &C
,ep ed i and pr ceeded to selecta ha.f dozen of
he toughest products of alcoholic SIN which The |
chicago saloons haa been able to ,urn ont, and
The drnnkar making no other city can beat |
them in their inc of work manship.
The experimental c"ses were sent down 10 |
Dwigh', one at a me, ex end ng over period |
If severa W teks. And in due time they were all !
'.turned TO me looking as if veri able miracle
lad been ough upo tn m The change for the
letter WIS so thltI cely recogn mixed them.
vas amazing. and converted me TO a belief il
he efficacy of the gold cure for alcoholism and
pIum.
Put did not stop with the ha' / dozen specially
e'cei Cases but sent down to Dwight a cum
er Of inc briate acQu intances TO take the treat
lent, as I was a xiou> t. reclaim these old
rieL DIS who had b. en- respectable and useful eii-
ems before the drink habit had ruined their
7 had t,nS s,,lI,y
hat drum Lenness was dis ase, the result of
mbibing p ison, and that NJ edicine had been
isco eered hich released the victims from The
remesSih'e thirst for alcohol nd that it ,e-
ored the man to normal health Of body and
ind l fe'U it 20 be a duty which owe to hui
,anity. 10 make K nown the virtues of the Kee-
" cure : fast far IL my rower, and
.joire thr the cont OF of a widely read journal
ahled Inc to reach the minds of multitude of
lie Zig. n pe,rle. I opened the columns of my
per free to the rescued victims o. alcohol
no related Their exparien ana testified 10
hat the Keelr cure had done for them.
Several hysicans who had taken he cure
ote n.ifcal about the eff CT of the treat
lent. SEN good reporters 20 Dwight TO write
D " nat was occurring there under their ooser-
alton and T., interview cured men who were
ming there. bringing inebriate friends for
eatnent Many wives and mothers wrote let
RS rel ting what he go cure had done for
cir husbands ami sons. backed these testi-
oniaIs wit editorial end orsemenis, nd in
II ed DR.. Ke ley to write on. for publ cation his
cory of a'co hOl as poison and how It caused,
sease. DESTROYING the will power and produc-
" a species If insanity, and in wha at way his
medv acted to effect cure. He claimed that
e time wi come when inebriety will stand in
e same relation 10 law and moral conduct I hat
sanity does now. The Doctor IL a profound
mixer and rem arka bly, clear in tate ent, in ex-
inning and m aintainirg his thesis, and his ceres
ndence ctst much ligh' on the whole subject,
thin year had tn extreme Pleasure and I
of see ing a thousand men, victims
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