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Show DR . ARTHUR I . GROVES His Address to Fifteen Hundred People in the ProYO Tabernacle on Sunday Last. -the Diseases of Alcoholism and Mor-phomania Mor-phomania Ably Outlined. Out-lined. Marvelous Success of the Salt Lake Keeley - Institute. inherited raental condition which craves the drinking of intoxicating liquors. This is a true mental disease; it manifests itself in periodical attack of. excessive indulgence in alcoholic drinking;, or thi symptom of this aad diseasa may be replaced by other irreaistable desires of an impulsive kind, Ot h as lead to the commission and repeti-tioii repeti-tioii of various crimes, the gratification of ; various, other depraved appetites, robbery or j even homicide. The paroxysms at first oc-! oc-! cur at long intervals, become shorter and j shorter, until the individual entirely surrenders sur-renders himself to alcoholic and other excesses. ex-cesses. When a ytjuth of moral training begins to indulge ua drink of any kind he is actuated by motives purely social, lie little dreams lie U caressing a torpid viper, which when thoroughly warmed by constant embraces "will sting him to death. The moderate . use of alcohol to the beginner be-ginner makes his eyes dance with envied light and his tonsue to utter gay and witty the Rev. I. S. Kallock, a most gifted pulpit orator, a man of commanding presence and powerful magnetism, who, no doubt, preached the word with effective force and has been instrumental in bringing souls to Christ, and yet he himself was corrupt. It only goes to show that God blesses His word to some sou! by whorhsocver preached, but does not necessarily bless the preacher. I draw attention only to these instances to impress upon your minds that we should not always enquire too closely as to the source of good gifts, provided they bear the imprint of divine sanction through their ultimate results. "God works in my jterious ways His wonders to perform." It is also a sad fact that the Churches, the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Young Men's Christian Association and other evangelical associations, have been, and are today, powerless to cope with this terrible scourge. It is a source of great sorrow to see the backsliding of a convert and to see the man resuming his -a? Jt ; a i . ? i . s cost but little and can do so much for the i sufferers. Remember that out of the fulness I of the heart and the nobleness of the soul, comes only good. Knowing as we . now know, that the victim of such slavery as I have described, are no longer answerable for their actions and ought we not to make due allowance and instead of pouring torrents fourth of abuse and treating treat-ing them with supreme disgust, rather offer sympathy, at the same time thanking God for His great goodness in giving to man-kind man-kind this marvelous remedy through Dr. Keeley. For as I firmly believe in the grace of God, so do I believe that this, like all good things, conies from His hand, and in refusing to partake of this blessinar man proves himself to be either a skeptic or a coward cow-ard or both. I would ask you, dear friends, to use your influence with'those around you who may be so unfortunately placed as to need it, be they friends, relatives or stran-ers, stran-ers, so that they may once more be clothed in their right mind and in full possession pos-session of their faculties, and be restored re-stored to thier full strength and life. It Is for you to do this grand and good work. Rescue your fellow creatures from the dark, fathomless abyss of despair aud disease and lift them up to health, hope, honor, happiness happi-ness aud prosperity f .r by your good deeds on earth so shall you be judged in Heaven. former dissipated habits. The cause is 1 looked for, but always in the wrong direction. direc-tion. He has the fatal disease, and it would be as reasonable to expect a child, delirious with fever, not to partake of a cooling potion placed within its rtach, as the dipsomaniac dip-somaniac to abstain from alcohol. After the patients have gone through our Institution and received the cure, you, who are church people, shouid then throw around them the influences of church society, but, until they are cured of this disease. I believe be-lieve your time will bo wasted in the greater number of cases in trying to point out a way to a better life by any other means. The first requirement in a patient is that he shall be himself desirous of getting rid of the disease of alcholism, and without this desire it is almost impossible to effect a cure. The Keeley treatment does' not paralyze speeches. For the time being the world seems tilled with light, lovely gaiety, and promise. Foolish youth. He has tasted the delights of forbidden fruit aud in so doing has allowed deception to creep into his life. He realizes he has done wrong, but there is time enough, he thinks, to settle down. He will stop before he is found out. He reasons rea-sons thus: why should not he have a good time with all the years of his life stretching out before him? So he yields, becoming more acquainted with sin and growing less mindful of the warnings of conscience. The possibility of becoming a drunkard never occurred to him. The tottering foot-steep, foot-steep, the thick speech, holds out no warn-; warn-; ing to him; they only excite his pity or ridicule. ridi-cule. There is no limit to the first stages of his drinking experience. He merges into the second stage, when his outraged constitution constitu-tion demands stimulants. He has reached the first serious crisis in his drinking career, and the real battle begins. If he does not turn from the cup now his chances are small. He has arrived at a point in the downward road where reformation is possible possi-ble but not probable. He must choose one of these routes, viz: total abstinence, habitual drinking or spree drinkinir. His decision will be governed largely by circumstances, surroundings, home influences, training and temperament. If he is a man of slow mind and snoerh. rnrelpsit of nfliera' nriininns. Latliex and GmtUrnen; The subject of my address this evening is, to most of you, by no means new, and to many, that which will revive the memories ot the past that have nothing in common with the bright, side of life. Rather will it call to your minds years of sorrow, suffering and despair that have found a partial ending in the death of those to whom the cause may be attributed, and I ask you to believe that it is not without the deepest regard for the fecliugs of those who . may have been thus afflicted that I venture upon the alf absorbing topic of the medical world today, viz: the disease of alcholism. i The science of medicine is the oldest of professions, as it is the grandest. Not alone in the civilized country has this science been cultivated, for the original inhabitants of this great country of ours, the Indians, have their medicine men, who not only releive their fellow men of their bodily sufferiugs but enable them to enter the haven of all rest, "the happy hunting ground." The world was not made in a day, the Alps were not crossed in a single night, lib? crty was not purchased by the death of one man but by thousands, so it is with the science sci-ence of medicine. After repeated efforts and -numerous failures men have been found the muscles of the patients arm or of his throat lie can still lift liquor to his mouth and still swallow it, but the cure does remove re-move all the morbid craving for stimulauts and restores to the patient his full self control con-trol and places him where he was when he first began their use so he can let them alouo afterwards if he chooses to. Surely the implanting of the desire to be cured and the resolve to continue in well doing after the cure has been effected are peculiarly your province. he will throw aside restraint and start out on the habitual drunkards road, a moderate drinker. lie - rill daily encourage the cr&ving, regulating the quantity to his constitutional demands. If, on the other hand, ho is of an imaginative temperament, j with high aspirations, or if by virtue of liia ' earlier training, he is keenly alive to the disgraceful associations of whisky, he will be too weak, because of his already impaired control, to turn from the al'urements forever, for-ever, lie will travel the road of the spree , drunkard, or dipsomaniac. He suffers in the initial stage a thousand tortures for every drunk. His better nature is in perpetual revolt Jagainst this excessive Indulgence, he soon becomes however, a master in the art of deception. He begins with debauches confined to the night, but there comes a time when abused nature imposes im-poses a penalty of heavy daylight bracing up. It is not long before he braces up too much and dare not go home. Heartsick, nervous, remorseful, he goes on his first open spree Concealment is no longer attempted. at-tempted. He grows desperate. He is unable una-ble to face the family circle. He drinks now to drown remorse and conscience. Generally Gen-erally strong of constitution he foregoes rest and nourishment and lives for days on stimulants stim-ulants alone. He does not stop until his stomach refuses to retain a drop more then the awful home going. I sometimes wish I had the power to picturo his feelings now. Man will never be able, to portray his conscience con-science at this time. The agony, the horror is beyond description. The stimulant no sooner dies within him than he realizes every disgraceful incident in his debauch. .now a few words as the history of the Keeley cure and its physical side. The inventor, in-ventor, Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, is a regular practicing physician with over thirty years experience. He was an army surgeon during dur-ing the late war, and has been fcr many-years, many-years, and still is, surgeon to the Chicago & Alton railway. He has made a special study of alcholism and kindred disease nearly thirty years and this method of treatment is uot a sudden discovery, but the result of long year of patient enquiry and scieutifie research. His cure came into prominent e some eleven years ago, and has been stead ly growing ever since. The details are very simple. The patient is lurn ished ith a quantity of internal remedy which he takes every two hours while awake. Tut) principal ingredients, ingre-dients, are tht! double chloride of gold and Sodium i re-naly waicj h ii been in t.se for many years, it is this medicine which has given it the name of "gold cure." To supplement the internal medicines, the pa-, tient receives, four tim.-s a day, a hypodermic hypoder-mic injection in the arm, which is given at regular intervals. The ingrcdieuts of this injection are Dr. Keelcy's secret. No restraint re-straint whatever is put upon the patient. He is never locked up. He is not debarred from stimulants of any kind with the sole exception of cigarettes, but whisky is furnished fur-nished until he can drop it voluntarilj'. The rules for diet are simply to eat anything which does not disagree with him. He is required re-quired to take frequent baths and to retire early. The treatment given produces no pain or unpleasant sensations, but as the medicines are graduated to suit individual equal to the emergency who have discovered remedies that arc a blessing to mankind, equal to life itself. For ages past down to the present time, medical men have been poring over books and through natural science to find some means to relieve their fellow men of the different dif-ferent diseases that he is heir to. As I have stated the object of my visit to four most beautiful city on this occasion is to speak to you ou the subject of alcoholism and the effects of its continued use upon the human system. I 6hall endeavor to explain, as far as possible, this disease, so that you may better understand the vital necessity for extreme measures that must be resorted to in order to rid the system of this poisou before we can hope to attempt a complete or even partial, reformation of mankind, for you will readily see that from the diseased body comes the diseased mind, and the body must be cleansed before the mind can be acted upon. Even as "to the pure all things " ' are pure" so it is with the diseased. Debasing Debas-ing minds lead to debasing actions, and debasing de-basing associations finish up in the mire of poverty, crime, filth and finally in a most horrible and untimely death. I shall attempt at-tempt to portray to you the diflcreut stages of this poison upon the human body, show- j ing how utterly impossible, in most cases it is for th1? person diseased even to throw v ; off the bondage that they labor under with, out the aid of medical science. Fqr more than 4000 years, it has been the custom of the inhabitants of this world- to cases, tUt patient must be watched carefully by the attendant physician. After the third day the patient is usually ready to give up stimulants, and his health and appetite improve from that time. The after effects of the treatment are not at all injurious as some people-would lead one to suppose. The patients enjoy better health than formerly and according to all statistics, among all the patients who have taken treatment, the death rate is far less than among the sanu numbur of persons who never took the treatment. Out of 60,000 persons there is sure to be a death now and then, but when we comider the physical wrecks a largo number of them are, and then know the death rate is far less among them, as I have s'aled, than the same number of persons whom we meet on the streets every day, it ought to show what a tonic tho medicine really is, rather than its injurious effects. Tne results of the treatment treat-ment ate that Uj per cent of all persons treated are permanently cured.' Twelve years ao Dr. Keslay bcaran treating treat-ing persons in his oflice at Dwight, 111. He was then comparatively unknown in the medical world, living as he did in the little wayside village, quietly yet steadily experimenting experi-menting on one of the great points of his ambition. Ho had found the remedy for make use of alcohol in many different, forms as a stimulant for the human system, and for hundreds of years medical science has been taxed to its uttermost in the endeavor en-deavor to discover a remedy for the disease that is brought on by the excessive use of the same. Some thirty years aco Dr. Keeley Kee-ley began experimenting on a cure, and after af-ter eighteen years of hard study and careful research, to say nothing of constant con-stant practical tests, he at last ; discovered that the Double Chloride of gold and sodium was the principal ele-tnent ele-tnent for successful treatment of this disease ind it is about this grand medical discovery of the present century that I wish to speak to you. It is impossible to be associated with the Keeley institutes as physician or patient and see the results of their treatment without recognizing their great mission and speculating specu-lating upon the possibilities they present for reclaiming the masses. It is a deplorable but accepted fact, I believe, that more than half of our laborers and a great many of our doctors of law and medicine are addicted to one or more of the different habits or diseases dis-eases at which our institutes are striking tuch telling blows, The picture drives him frantic with trrief, remorse and shame. His physical suffering is nothing in comparison to the unutterable mental anguish. From this time he firmly intends to redeem tho past and fancies in his own heart that he never will drink to excess again. Try as hard as he will he cannot say in his heart, I will never touch another drop as long as I live. He cannot get rid of the idea that under such circumstances in the future he will again for the pleasure there is in drinking moderately. Every drinking man who has passed this stage, will endorse this statement, state-ment, the disease beginning tj fasten upon the victim and is the entrance to the third stage. His very buoyancy and resolve beget over confidence and he grows less careful. He begins to feel proud of his record, and determination to conquer every temptation. Soon there springs into life an unaccouut?' able desire for change and excitement, for something he knows not what. He grows restless, nervous and depressed at times. In a moment of high mental, or physical excitement, ex-citement, or abnormal depression, as the case may be, he takes one drink and again falls. He fights a hard fight for days or weeks according to his strength, but he cannot can-not get away from that one drink which has broken down the barriers of his resolve, and To intelligently handle the subject of dip-- dip-- somania or chronic alcoholism and its possible pos-sible cure it would be necessary for you to accept the theory of the recognized physi-.' physi-.' cians as to Its being a disease. The causes of this disease vary in different temperaments tempera-ments but their results are similar. It would unnecessarily tax your patience to relate some of the excuses and apparent causes presented for daily intemperance, no two alike, as you no doubt are familiar with many, the victim invariably hesitating to accept the theory that alcoholism is a disease, dis-ease, but all admitting their inability to control con-trol their appetites. The whisky habit, as it is called, is a disease, I believe, cither hereditary or acquired and must therefore be medically treated to insure permanent relief. Its effects are upon the moral, mental men-tal and physical being in its different stages. 1 will devote but a few moments to the physical side of this question. "By the term alcoholism is meant the physical and mental changes induced by - alcohol. The effects of a large quantity taken in a short time are known as acute alcoholism, and the term chronic alcoholism is applied to that state which is the product of the long-continued action of considerable quantities of the poison. In chronic alcoholism there are but few organs and tissues of the human system not in some way changed. Suffice it to say , that the digestive organs, the heart, kidneys and brain all undergo changes with the pro-Kress pro-Kress of the affection. The memory grows -Weaker, the judgment becomes less accurate, i which he had searched Eighteen year and sooner or later tho world must recognize it. Day by day tho number of patients increased, every patient cured sent in from five to ten more victims of this dire disease. His class became larger and larger, from a dozen to a hundred and from a hundred to a thousand. Success followed his years of hard work and never ceasing energy and patience. He had risen from the darkuess of obscurity into the light of the most enviable notoriety noto-riety and today the little village 'of D-vight is a place whose fame, through Dr. Keelcy's marvelous ' discovery is known in every corner of the jrlobe. i Thousands of happy familcs offer prayers of thankfulness to God for his goodness in sending this relief through his servant, Dr. Keeley; thousands of men and women hold the name of Kecly more sacred thau that of any public benefactor the world has yet known. Over fifty branches have been established es-tablished throughout the country where the treatment is identical with that of the parent home. Able medical men are in charge of these institutions who have been personally instructed at Dwight by Dr. Keeley before receiving these appointments. Dr. Keelcy's hair is white and his form bowed and he feels that he has not many years left him in which to watch the progress of his discovery. discov-ery. "It would lighten my last hours," he said to me, "if I could know that the blessing bless-ing God has given mc for my fellow men could have ireneral recognition." The Salt Lake Keeley institute was opened at the famous Gardo house, January 11, 1S92, he cannot build them up again, try as hard as he will. He grows depressed, discouraged, discour-aged, and finally, in despair, plunges recklessly reck-lessly into another debauch. His life from this time is a seriee of stumbles, falls, ups and downs, a state of drunkenness, relieved by sober and lucid intervals, which grow shorter aa the sprees grow longer. It is in this stage of this disease that some few have, by the exercise ot their own will, reformed, through religious re-ligious or moral influences, but for every one who docs reform there are thousands that are lost. Suicides, maniacs, criminals and tramps leave the main body along the road in this third period. The remaining re-maining reach the fourth and last stage, as it may be before the victim completely destroys de-stroys the confidence and hope of all interested inter-ested in him, but finally he does arrive at i that point. It is during this third stage, as j I have called it, that whisky begins to change his nature. Alcholism fails to., relieve re-lieve or excite aa it did formally. It looses its. exhilariting power. Instead of transforming trans-forming him from the remorseful conscience stricken man, into the jolly fellow of old, it deadens his brain, subjugates his muscle. He grows morose, ill mannered and 'quarrelsome. 'quarrel-some. Instead of the old wakefulness, nervous activity and mental aberration, we now find him, after a few days of hard drinking, in the back room of a saloon, on a table or a chair or on the floor in a drunken stupor. .He baa entered the fourth stage of his disease. Alcholism has conquered mind and body. The man is a slave, he can only his moral sense is blunted, hit duties to his family and his business are neglected, he prsws itnliffurent to his personal appearance appear-ance and becomes dirty iu his habits. He becomes morose and irritable, the appetite docllncs. tho stomach becomes intolerant of foofl. Especially docs the alcoholic suffer iu fie early morning before the morning ('rant gives steadiness to the nerves aud tone to his stomach. The mind becomes more and more impaired and ultimately tho rneu-tal rneu-tal coudition declines into imbecility. As regards the exterior of the body, chronic alcoholics al-coholics exist In two types, the pallid, flabby hut fat, the red, even purplish hued and blofi'ed. The former having a smooth, palliC, heavy ant' imbecile expres:o:; the latter roughened by pimples and stiirmata, dusky, with great bladders under the eyes yellow and injected eyeballs and lips blue and swollen. From these signs any of you are able to tell the human beings who suffer from this disease. Now just a word in regard re-gard to "dipsomania" or the periodical drinker. In my npiniun dipsomania is the ..-v.' bo relieved from his bondage by medical skill, without it he is utterly hopeless and doomed. I believe, it is au accepted fact that every desire of the heart to do right is an un-uttered un-uttered prayer. While you or I may p.ot agree with Leslie E. Keeley regarding theology, I myself recognize the hand of tho master in the undertaking of this boon to humanity. I noticed, some time, ago, an item in the New York dispatches to the effect that Jay Gould had evidently experienced a change of heart, and as an evidence of such had contributed $10,000 to charity work. A reverend doctor, a famous divine, had curiously asked where he had received the money from, intending no doubt, to infer tiiat it was next to a sin to accept of money obtained through speculation or usury. If my memory serves mo right, he was answered an-swered by a brother devine: "Tho source ot, a gift was not of such great moment as the use made of it." I have noticed the downfall and record of f . (' " , .?.-.-'" -'. j 6ince that date I have treated over 200 patients pa-tients who bkve gone away cured men. The house has been refitted and everything added which could render it suitable for its present use. A billiard and a card room have been opened, a supply of books and periodicals laid iu, and the parlors are used for callers and for musical entertainments. Tree transportation trans-portation is furnished to the famous Beck's Hot Springs, and free baths are given. It is not necessary for patients to board at the house, they Jean select their own boarding places in the city and come to the institute regularly for treatment. i And now after having described to yon as thoroughly as possible in so short a time the action of those suffering from alcoholism and the effect of the poison upon the system, sys-tem, let mo ask you to have compassion upon the unfortunate. You remember the words of our Savior and say with him, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." The diseased are more to be : pitied than blamed. Encourage by a kind j word, good actions, a helping haud; these J |