The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-01-24
CASES OF RELAPSE,
Instances of Persons Afflicted With
Troublesome Habits.

Troublesome Habits
Question. You say that every man
who takes a full course of this treat
ment as prescribed by Doctor Kelley is
cured. Why is it that some who take
the treatment drink again?
Answer. For the same reason that
some men will have second or even
third attack Of pneumonia, typhoid
fever, appendicitis or any ether disease.
1t is because the same causes or ageR-
cles being brought into operation sec
ond time will produce the same results
as in the first instance. Certain causes
are always followed by certain effects.
1t is well known that the relation be-
tween cause and effect is always the
same. Introduce into the system sufi-
cieht typhoid fever germs and there will
be an attack of typhoid fever. Intro
duce certain amount of arsenic and
there will be arsenical poison. a Ger
tain amount of any poison will be fol-
lowed by poisoning bearing the char
acteristics Of the poison introduced
into the system, and alcohol is no ex-
ception to the rule. The chief Difficult.
ty lies in the fact that the general
public do not look upon alcohol as one
of the poisons. They all recognize that
the use of strychnia in other than a
certain amount produces poisoning Of
the nervous system as exhibited by
muscular twitching, involuntary move
ments, spasms, convulsiops and death,
unless antidoted and removed from the
system in time. There is no actual diff
ference in the poisoning by alcohol and
the poisoning by any other of the
known poisons. Any man taking Ger
tain amount Of alcohol will exhibit tie
signs Of alcoholic poisoning varying in
degree according to the susceptibility
of the man and the amount of alcohol
used. There is great difference in the
susceptibility of individuals to alcohol
as there is in their susceptibility &c
other medicines. One or two grains Of
quinine will in some persons produce
ouinism or quinine poisoning, while
with others 10, Is or 20 grains would be
required to produce this effect. So it
is with alcohol; q half pint Of whiskey
will affect some persons much more
than a quart will affect others, and
whether the user has taken but a half
pint or quart as the case be, alco.
holic poisoning ensues. Repetitions Of
the act create the disease known as al
coholism or alcoholic poisoning, and
the characteristic effects Of alcoholic
poisoning are manifested. Now any
man taking full course Of the treat
uent as prescribed by Doctor Kelley is
as thoroughly cured Of the alcoholic
poisoning as the man who is cured Of
etrychnia poisoning, arsenical poison
ing, typhoid fever or other diseases
produced by poisons, and the perma-
nency Of the cure Of alcoholism is with
one exception on exactly the same basis
as the cure Of other poisonings de-
pendent upon the patients abstinence
from the use of the poison, for when
the victim OF alcoholic poisoning is
cured there is complete disappearance
of all necessity, craving or desire 70,
alcohol in any form, and he has no more
need or desire for alcohol than the
strychnis poisoned patient has for
strychnia.
The one exception that | refer to is
that strychnia and other poisons are
not the subjects Of social indulgencies.
In this world in the present state Of So
ciety, business associations and illness
es, one Is more or less subjected to the
dangers, the poison being used as g
medicine, or part Of social functions,
or com panionship with other alcohol
users, but the cured inebriate is thor.
oughly and fully warned by the physi-
clans in majority of the Kelley Insti.
tutes Of the dangers of alcohol, its
presence in many of the patent medi.
F! cines and so-called temperance or soft
drinks, as we'll as its absolute useless
ness in the treatment Of diseases or as q
remedy for any i'll that flesh is heir to,
aud he leaves the Institute fully armed
on all sides for the Intelligent protec.
tion of the cue, SO that his return tc
his former practice Of using alcoholic
LIQUORS is the same as would be the re.
turn of man who was poisoned by ty.
phoid fever germs to use the water
known to contain the germ, or to the
use of strychnia knowing it to be such.
Unfortunately we fad many people
who never appreciate the advantage Of
sober life and the necessity for absti-
nence from alcoholic liquors.-From
The Banner Of Gold.