Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-29
The Sanity Side OF
the Kelley Cure,
From Department of Health.

There is no question as to the
sanity side of the Kelley Cure. To
me it appeals with fully as much force
as does the fact that the treatment
effects radical physical cure for that
awful craving for strong drink"
The Kelley Cure leaves a man in his
right mind, or rather restores to him
the normal mental faculties which
whiskey and strong drink have taken
away from him. OF course l can
understand that this happy mental
condition is made possible, or is
brought about, by the perfect physical
cure. A healthy body means healthy
mind to control in large measure our
physical acts. With the utter absence
of all bodily or physical craving for
stimulants, it is then made easy for
the will power to assert itself.
The poor diseased body of the dipst-
maniac cries, yea, howls, for just one
drink The mind, the brain, the rea-
son, aye, the conscience of the help
eSS victim do all in their power to
combat this craving, but to no purpose.
The body wins and the fight for
decency and manhood is lost. This is
why we often hear it said: Il know the
poor fellow wants to quit. He is not
vicious: he has good heart but he
just can't control that awful appetite"
So, you see that though the mind and
heart he right. they are usually con-
trolled by our bodily weakness.
In this phase of the Kelley Cure
there lies the highest hopes of those
who have taken the treatment at Port
land, Maine. 1t means that you have
absolute control of yourself; that the
higher and better impulses of both
mind and heart are not going to be in
terfered with by a mere physical all
ment 1t also establishes what Doctor
Kelley always maintained, that the
drunkard is not necessarily vicious or
depraved. but simply a man i'll with a
disease that should be treated by
medical skill, and a disease for which
he had discovered a positive and I'M
failing cure.
Before l close this brief article l
desire once more to affirm my complete
and abiding faith in the Kelley Cure
There is no uncertainty about it what
ever. The uncertainty lies in the in
dividual, if at all; not in the cure
The conviction with which write this
is mountain high, firm as the everlast-
ing hills, and may not be shaken.
l believe that 1 have said before that
man whose system has been poisoned
with alcohol until he becomes dipso-
maniac is in much the same condition
as the patient who has taken poison
with his food or drink into his
stomach and is stricken with typhoid
fever. In both cases the malady
yields to medical treatment and. careful
nursing. The Kelley Treatment per-
forms for the dipsomaniac what the
regulation medical treatment does for
the typhoid fever patient
In both cases, too, a recurrence of
the disease depends wholly upon the
system being again poisoned If this
does not occur. there will be no recur-
rance of the disease
There, is however, this difference. A
person may, without knowledge, take
the germs of typhoid fever into the
system through food and drink. Not
so with the Kelley graduate. There is
small chance for him to take the
alcohol poison. which produces in
ebriety. into his stomach without his
knowing it.
So, 1 say, there is no need for any
one, much less the man who has taken
the Kelley Treatment, to worry about
the certainty of his cure. Look only to
yourself that you keep it.
l have seen few failures-bitter,
humiliating, heart-rendering failures.
but it was the individual who failed
Human weakness, and in some in
stances, human cussedness, lay at the
bottom But in no sense can the
Kelley Treatment be counted at fault
Visit the Kelley Cure in Portland,
Maine.
- BY ONE WHO KNOWS
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