Show IDOWtUNG THE FIE m I A Salt Laker Cured of Inebriety In-ebriety KEELEYS WONDERFUL SYSTEM A Graphic Account of the Methods Pursued to Rescue Men from Alcoholism Alco-holism To tho Editor or THE HEKAID As a result of an article published in your paper April 211 decided to come to Dwight and put myself under the treatment treat-ment of Dr Leslio E Keeloy I bad drank to excess for years I had made repeated re-peated efforts to reform but without success suc-cess I suffered from agony and remorse td I which every drinking man is subject and my life for the last ten years has been tho same terrible old story of shame disgrace I I mental agony and financial and social loss I was the victim of a habit which waa stronger than myself In a word I wart the victim of that terrible disease inc brlety I came to Dwight took the prescribed pre-scribed treatment and now three weeks after my arrival am a now man free from the awful craving of alcohol and freu forever For the benefit of those readers I I of TDK HERALD who are victims of the die disease of inebriety and for the friends and families of such unfortunates I writs this letter explaining the theory of diseaso and showing that It may be cured quickly painlessly and certainly Tho story of the life of every drinking man is exactly the same Alter a long debauch de-bauch comes a period of sickness and remorse re-morse Ho makes solemn vows never to drink again It is a constant struggle da < after day Ho keeps to his pledge a day a week a month or a year Suddenly ho falls Ho falls with his eyes open He does not break his vows from pure cussedness cus-sedness but simply and solely because ho is tho victim of a disease which bus become more powerful than his will He has developed I de-veloped an appetite fur liquor which is stronger than be is His fall after one of his periods of sobriety can generally predicted pre-dicted with almost absolute certainty The faithful wives and friends know to their sorrow when the attack is coming on though the poor inebriate is unconscious of what before him One day after months of sobriety he becomes nervous and listless list-less he complains of dyspepsia headache or some trifling ailment Thins go wrong at the office be speaks a fretful word td the loving ones at home he cannot read anything requiring thought he has a feverish fever-ish desire for novelty for amusement fed distraction he cannot kcop quiet and has n strange craving for excitement Hti is ignorant of his true condition cr deceives himself His nerve are howling and shrieking for alcohol and when they can stand it no longer he take I a drink The nerves are master he ii the slave After having struggled against the appetite as never man fought on the fielu of battle he elves up the fight all at once Again he reforms and again he falls Why 1 is ill This has been the question for ages and the man who has solved the problem 01 I the cause and gone on beyond into tho curd itself Is Dr Leslie E Keeley of Dwight IlLAs As well as I can I will give his theory o I the cause and the cure of perIodical drinking and it should bo borne in mini that the socalled constant drinker ii simply a periodical drinker with a com larativoly short time between drinks1 Tim young man starting out in life has no craving for drink When he introduced alcohol into the system tho nerves bavo II only a small power of resistance against ltd action and he is easily intoxicated If ho keeps on drinking the nerves acquire an increased power of resistance It takes more to make the man drunk If ho perse vores in his drinking the nerves acquire n resistance to the effect of alcohol which will enable him to drink a large amount ol alcohol without complete intoxication The cervss have learned to depend on alcohol instead of tbo food which sustained them in health They arcs in a diseased condition and have undergone under-gone a change from their original state They can no longer act properly witbou1 alcohol than those of a healthy child coulcj act without food When the inobriat swears off he is treating his nerves to an enforced fast Dr Tanner and Sued lived without food for forty days Our inebriate can do without alcohol for a time but there is an absolute limit to tho power of endur mice in both cases Continued drinking has perverted the cell structure of thu nerves and they uavo learned to depend on alcohol This condition of the nerves is independent of tho will power If tho nerves are thoroughly diseased they arq stranger than will and will have their alcohol food in spito of sorrow agony misfortune mis-fortune good resolutions aud loving wife and children The poor druntard can no more do without his alcohol than the loved ones ho leaves at home can do without bread This is the history of the disease and very honest drinking man will acknowl edgo that this description is accurate in very particular Now the question arises Can the nerves be restored to a condition of health In other words can they bo weaned from alcohol and taught onco more to depend for sustenance on the healthy food they knew before tho habit of drinking was formed There is one mann man-n the world who asserts positively that he can effect this change back to the original conditions and that man is Dr Leslie EJ Keely Ho has discovered that the nerved rhythmically In other words he has found that they alternately cravo and rcl slat alcohol By the use of a peculiar corn sound of which tho double chloride of gol < 1s tho principal compound bo breaks uj i this system or alternation and places th nerves in a condition where they do no depend on alcohol and in mauy cases hay psailiYO dUUste for it IB short ho places J the nervous system exactly where it was before the man learned to drink Does this man do what he claims to do After my residence here I am certain that tio reasonable man can spend three weeks In this village of Dwight mixing with the I aticnts and taking the treatment without jeroming convinced that Dr Kceiey does j exactly what he claims to be able to do I 1 have seen dozens of cases where men who II irrive here in a beastly state of intoxication intoxica-tion absolutely refuse liquor after a few lays of treatment 1 have seen men who nave drank whisky for a quarter of a cen jury cured of all desire for alcohol I tiavo met and talked with men who I were hopeless homeless drunkards and who were cured here one two live or more years ago and who say tha i I tIter their cure tho desire for liquor was never present for an instant Former patients pa-tients arrive every day to pay a visit to the nun they love and revere above all men rIle story is i everywhere the same Tho success of Dr Keeloys treatment cannot tut 1 Joubtcd for an instant by any man who has uccess to the proper sources of information It is an absolute and undeniable fast There arc at present in this little Illinoh village over UOO patients They ecibradi rll grades of the social scale One can ostlo elbows with farmers millionaires lawyers business men editors engineers physicians men of leisure saloon keepers ounkers traveling men or representative of any other vocation The course of treatment treat-ment IE simple Four times a day a large tile of men march to the doctors oGlco and ire rapidly given a hypodermic injection i The operation does not consume over half an hour for tho whole number Each patient is given a bottle of medicine of I which a spoonful is taken every two hours while awake That Is all there is to it j Tliere is absolute freedom of I I action among the patients They t > rc not locked up board in private houses trod have complete liberty of action They can leave at any time if they determine to 110 50 The whole thing is purely voluntary I volun-tary and there is no system of supervision tMcn arriving in an intoxicated condition uro provided with an attendant if disorderly dis-orderly or in a state of collause Other wlsn they are free to go where they will without anyone to oversee their actions rhey are given as much good whisky as they need to Jo their nerves down gradually gradu-ally As a rulo they themselves are the irst to refuse the whisky and this within a few days after their arrival In my own ase I took whisky for the first two days Mthough I was sober when I came Tho tivenin of the third day I drank a two mace bottle of fine old whisky and almost Immediately It was rejected bv my stomach is if it had been a powerful emetic Since ben the appetite for liquor in me which cost money friends social position business busi-ness and the agony and sorrow of family and friends to acquire is absolutely dead jo far as my experience goes 1 cannot say that tho appetite will not return but the j testimony of others is so complelf and so convincing that I am ustifled in believing that I am freed once more and that once more I can look the curia in the face every inch a man and I I I m now looking forward with pleasure tq 11Y I I speedy return to a happy circle of ret re-t I Icing family and friends in conclusion it should be said that there is r I no claim by Dr Kceiey or any of his iitients presenter past that his treatment treat-ment I will prevent drinking It will not I rag a mon out of a saloon by the heels In nany cases there is a positive distaste for iQuor In others there is not All that is plalinod is that the taste for alcohol is dc ptroycd The craving is gone If without any craving a man desires to contract the habit again be can do so although in the majority of cases repeated trials are necessary nec-essary before the stomach will retain a drink of whisky The mau is placed where be was before he learned to drink If he disregards the lesson of tbo past and if the sorrow and misery of his years of drunkenness drunk-enness have made no impression upon him no can again become a drunkard but he can never again enrolled among the list of Dr Keeloys patients for there is no use of curing a man who will not profit bv experience In the case of 05 per cent of the persons who leave Dwight the cure is permanent The other 5 per cent is made up chiefly if not exclusively of fools who cannot be taught and of very young men who have pot suffered enough to learn the lesson that they cannot play with fire without being burned The men and women composing the 95 per cent have no more taste for Iquor than for castor oil or kerosene but they know that they are in that condition solely through the treatment they have received re-ceived here in Dwight I simply voice the general opinion hero when I say that in my judgment the discovery dis-covery of the cause and cure of inebriety by Dr Keeley will soon place his name at the head of the roll of honor Pasteur and Koch being mere dwarfs in comparison The next great discussion in the scientific world will be Dr Keeloys pathology and cure for inebriety which embraces intemperance in-temperance in the use of alcohol opium and similar poisons A SALT LAEEII DWIOUT Ill May 16 |