The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-30
Poisoned By Alcohol
The Result Of Indulgence in Alcoholic
Drinks as Declared by Lead
ing Medical Men.
Dir. KEELEY'S WONDERFUL CURE
And What Is Accomplished
By 1t.
A Model Kelley Institute at Kansas
City. Kansas.

OAtys AnnSnCs
Up to within the present decade, those
who had become the victims of alcohol
were without hope of any change in
their condition. Occasionally some one
of these unfortunates succeeded in sue
cessfulIy fighting the savage demands
of alcoholic fire which ragged in his
veins, but a hundred succumbed to it's
ravages. Drunkenness was considered
a vice by all except a few advanced
medical men who knew that the vice
consisted in diseasing the system with
alcohol, but that after it was diseased
an antidote was necessary to eliminate
the poison, for poison it is The med1-
cal profession are now agreed that al
cohol is a poison and not food, as
formerly believed, and as such it IS
classed in the medical books. These ad-
vanced thinkers stated a fact which IS
now universally accepted, that it is not
possible to saturate the system for
years with rank poison without de-
veloping abnormal and therefore
diseased condition; and the more the
system is poisoned, the graVer the dis
ease. These facts have been demon
strated time and again in recent years
by scientific research, and deaths from
alcoholism now appear in the coroners
records just deaths from other causes
do.
Having proven beyond doubt that the
sufferers from alcoholic poison were
diseased, that a complete change had
taken place in the character of their
nerve cells and tissues, a cure was then
sought. One physician in Illinois had
been studying the effects of alcohol up
on the system for years. While a sur
geon in the United States army he had
become profoundly impressed with the
cases of alcoholic poisoning which came
under his observation, and afterward he
devoted his attention to discovering a
cure. The years came and passed, but
he continued his researches and exper-
iments, sometimes elated and Oftener
discouraged, but always determined, I'M
til one day about fifteen years ago the
success of his experiments justified him
in announcing to the world that he had
at last found a cure. 1t is needless to
say that the announcements of the dis
cOverieS of Jenner, Harvey, Morton and
others were not received with more in
credulity. Proof was demanded and
cheerfully given. Hon. Joseph Medil,
editor of the Chicago Tribune, sent dOz-
ems of the worst alcoholic cases to this
Illinois phySician-Dr. Leslie E. Kee-
ley and they all returned fully cured,
with the poison eliminated from their
systems, their normal conditions regain
ed, and in better health and spirits than
ever before. Philip D. Armour, the
great Chicago packer, thoroughly test
ed the efficacy of the treatment with
scores of his employees. Dozens Of 9TH
er large employers sent to DIR. Kelley
valua bic employees who had become dis
eased from alcohol, and all were cured.
In a comparatively short time, hun
the nation were seeking relief at his
hands, and it was found impossible to
accommodate all applicants at one in
6titutiOn, and that in a small interior
village unprepared to care for so great
a number. The plan was consequently
contaminated to establish great sys-
tenn of Institutes throughout the world
for the exclusive administration of the
Kelley treatment. This was over five
years ago, and it was then that the
Kelley Institute of Kansas, now loca-
ted at Kansas CifU h.
1ished.
The Keeley treatment is a scientific
medical treatment, which thoroughly
eliminates the alcoholic poison and re-
stores the patient to health, strength,
mental and physical vigor, which have
been absent while the blood and nerve
cells and tissues were fed by the poi
son. There is no legerdemain, no hyp-
notism about it, but it is purely sci
entific treatment of the disease. AS Dr.
Kelley says: Il am not a magician,
but a physician. I have only studied
drunkenness as disease and looked for
method of curing it. Its cure is not
difficult The disease readily yields to
the treatment The full force of this
statement is recognized when it is
stated that patients at the Kelley in
stitute are not denied LIQUOR as long
as a craving for it exists, but that in a
Few days, when the system begins to
approach its normal condition, the de-
sire for alcohol disappears, and when
the treatment is ended and the system
fully restored, there exists no more
craving for drink than there did before
the patient had taken the first drink
he ever took in his life. The marvel
GUS patronage enjoyed by the Kelley
institutes brings every one who thinks
about the matter to one of two con-
illusions: Either the Kelley treatment
is all that is claimed for it, or it is the
most stupendous fraud of the century
There can be no middle ground Those
who have fully investigated it are of
one OpiniOn-that it is all that is claim
ed for it-and more. No sane person
will assert that the $50, 900 men who
have been cured, many of whom we
meet every day, together with their
Families and friends, in all several mil
hon people, are victims of a delusion
If so, it is a grand, noble, elevating de-
fusion which restores men to their fam
lilies, to society and to the business
world. But an examination of the char
acter of the patients who have been
treated and a thorough investigation of
the treatment itself, dispelS the idea of
delusion and leaves only the cold bare
truth that the wonderful results are
accomplished by scientific medical
methods, just as reputable and Just as
logical as the treatment of any other
disease.
One of the most noted of the chain
of Kelley institutes, and one which has
done such effective work in the terrific
ry tributary to Kansas City, is located
in the Portsmouth building at Kansas
City, Kan.
The institute is conducted under the
the Institutes administering the gen