| Show I CURE WS DRDNKEXNES3 I Every little while someone comes to the front with a cure for ho drink habit The latest in the field Is Dr LESLIE KEELET who has an institute at Dwight Illinois and another at White Plains New York The doctor says tho TISO of intoxicating intoxi-cating liquors is a disease and not a habit and that it should be treated as a disease His method consists of hypodermic injec lions of chloride of gold and internal doses of the same to be administered at short intervals in-tervals Soon after the treatment begins the patients appetite for intoxicants lessens and it grows weaker for three or four weeks by which time it Is gone and the patient is cured KEELET claims to have treated 5000 cases since he discovered his remedy and has permanently cured 95 per cent of the patients only 5 per coat ti returning to their old ways Tho opium habit he declares can be cured by the same treatment The use of intoxicants may bo a disease bu if so a good many things which we call habits are diseases and appetite itself is a disease We think that the use of liquors is a disease which should be treated by doctoring the mind rather than the stomach stom-ach The cure lies in teaching the afflicted how to exercise control over his appetite if he cannot learn this if his will is weaker than his lovo for intoxicants if his man hood is loss powerful than his appetite the only remedy for his drink habit is death We dont believe that so called medicines ever cured a drunkard The cures which have occurred have been effected bv other than physical remedies They have been brought about by the assertion of the will by the power of the mind over the appetite The drunkard who signs the pledge or makes promise to stop drinking and then fails will bo very apt to defy all the remedies rem-edies which do not deprive him of the physical power to drink The doctor who can do the most good for the drunkard is the one who can convince con-vince the poor unfortunate drunkard that the latter has strength enongh to quit drinking will power enough to be a man force of character enough to resist temptation tempta-tion and courage to not commit a crime against society and against himself |
