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 OK NEVADA. 
 
 Hon. H. M. Yerrington 
 Hon. Evan Williams 
 
 v Dr. S. L. Lee 
 Dr. J. W. Fox 
 Mr. T. R. Hofer 
 
 Mr. Geo. C. Thaxter 
 Mr. Saml. P. Davis 
 Mr. J. X Jones 
 Mr. \V. L. Taylor 
 Mr. E. J. fj>arkinson 
 
 /Mr. C. A.-Witherill 
 Mr. Gilbert Briggs 
 Mr. F. W. Day 
 Mr'. : H. B. Miilard 
 Mr. Thos. Millard 
 Mr. Robt. H. Grimmon 
 Mr. W M. Wilford 
 Mr. Phillip Krall 
 Mr. Chas. T. Cutts 
 Mr. Peter H. Gordon 
 Mr. Wm. Anderson 
 Mr. Jno. G. Fox 
 Mr. E. Aube 
 Mr. D. C. Simpson 
 Mr. Henry Madison 
 Mr. Samuel J. Taylor 
 Dr. G. E. Sussdorff 
 Mr. James Raycraft 
 
 Mr Jno. B. Vieria 
 
 Mr. E. B. Zabriskie 
 
 Mr. John p. Sweeney 
 
 Mr. \V. C. Noteware 
 
 Mr. Harry E. Martin 
 
 Mr. Chas. A. Hofer 
 
 Messrs. Bell, Edwards & Co. 
 
 Messrs. Stein Bros. 
 
 Messrs. Cagwin & Noteware 
 
 Mrs Dora Williams 
 
 Mrs. Mabel E. Bliss 
 
 Mrs. Geo. T. Davis 
 
 Mrs. E. S. Cowan 
 
 Mrs. C. H. Davis 
 
 Mrs. Martha Mackey 
 
 M*rs. Fred Turner 
 
 Mrs. G. E. So'ssdorff 
 
 Mrs. W 7 . C. Watson 
 
 Miss Jennie Hatfibleton 
 
 Miss Florence Spurg< 
 
 Miss Jennie Davis 
 
 Mr. A. W. Havens 
 
 Mr. Lamartine Osborn 
 
 Mr. John D. Langhorn, Jr. 
 
 Mr J. J. Evans 
 
 Mr. Frank Ashton 
 
 Mr. James Wheeland 
 
 Mr. W. C. Watson 
 
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 President and Medical Director, 
 CARSON CITY, - - NEV. 
 
 W. C. \VATSON, 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer , 
 
 Room No. 5 (Third Floor), Mills Building, 
 SAN RKA1SLCISCO, CAL. 
 
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 INSTITUTE * 
 
 OF NEVADA. 
 
 The Keeley Institute at Carson City, Nevada, is the only 
 authorized branch of the \vorld-r.enowned Keeley Institute of 
 Dwight, Illinois, in this State. It possesses the sole and exclusive 
 right to administer and sell the -Double Chloride of Gold Reme- 
 dies, discovered and .prepared only by Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, for 
 the cure of the.lipuor, opium and tobacco habits, and neurasthenia. 
 By- means of these remedies and this system more than two 
 hundred thousand people have been permanently cured. 
 
 It will, therefore., be seen that no others in this State can give 
 the Keeley cure, and we call attention to the following " Note of 
 Warning," published by The Leslie E. Keeley Co. of Dwight ; 
 that the public may be on its guard, and. not be deceived by 
 unscrupulous and irresponsible persons who proclaim that they 
 give and administer the Double Chloride of Gold Remedies the 
 same, as Dr. Keeley 's: 
 
 "THE KEELEY INSTITUTE." 
 (Thirteen Years of Established Merit). 
 
 NOTE OF WARNING. 
 To the Public : 
 
 As a matter of justice to ourselves and to the reputation of 
 Dr. Leslie E. Keeley's Double Chloride of Gold Remedies for the 
 cure of the liquor, opium, morphine and tobacco diseases, and 
 neurasthenia, we warn the public that these remedies are used by 
 no institution -or sanitarium in the United States, except those 
 established by our company under the uniform name of "THE 
 KEELEY INSTITUTE." 
 
 
All others claiming to use Dr. Keeley's remedies or formula: 
 are frauds and impostors. 
 
 The Keeley Institutes, established in various parts of the 
 United States, now number one hundred and ten, with five in 
 Europe, where the Keeley treatment is administered, and the 
 Keeley remedies sold. We, however, caution all to examine well 
 and know that they are dealing with GENUINE REPRESENTATIVES, 
 authorized by us, before taking treatment or purchasing remedies. 
 
 The misleading establishments use the name of " Bi-Chloride 
 of Gold," or similar titles. The newspapers often fail to dis- 
 criminate sufficiently to know that they are imitators. This is a 
 matter of public welfare, and hence this warning. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 THE LESLIE E. KEELEY Co. 
 May /, /c?pj D wight > III. 
 
 S* L L *E, Successor to? 
 
 DR.IflRHMBHHHFF, who conducts the treatment at this insti- 
 tute, has successfully treated more than one thousand persons, and 
 is a man of large and varied experience in his profession. 
 
 No patient is accepted for treatment for a less period than 
 three weeks. In the liquor disease, this period is often sufficient, 
 though the majority need four weeks. 
 
 In the opium (or morphine) and cocaine diseases four weeks is 
 the shortest time. A longer period often becomes necessary, 
 depending upon the amount and length of time the drug has 
 been used. 
 
 The worst cases of the tobacco habit can usually be cured in 
 two weeks by institute treatment. 
 
 The time required for the cure of neurasthenia (or nerve 
 exhaustion) depends upon several special conditions, which cannot 
 be calculated until the patient has been under treatment for 
 several days. 
 
 In simple cases, however, of neurasthenia and the tobacco 
 habit we recommend the home treatment. 
 
 All information regarding times of treatment and other matters 
 not already given in these pages, will be cheerfully furnished on 
 application. 
 
 Medical examinations at institute of applicants for treatment, 
 free of charge. 
 
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 Carson City. 
 
 Carson City, the capital of Nevada, is a typical mountain town 
 of 4000 inhabitants, located near the base of the Sierra Nevada 
 mountains. Its climate is as nearly perfect as can be found on 
 the American continent. From February to December the max- 
 imum and minimum indications by the thermometer are 60 to 
 85. Invigorating breezes from the snow-capped mountains in 
 the immediate West keep the atmosphere pure and exhilarating. 
 The nights are always sufficiently cool to sleep in perfect comfort 
 under bed-clothing and one rises in the morning as refreshed and 
 exuberant in spirit as the birds of Spring-time. Every night is a 
 peaceful, restful vacation. The town has a copious supply of the 
 best and purest water in the world which is piped direct from 
 springs high in the mountains. Its streets are almost level and 
 ornamented with beautiful shade trees that form an Alameda in 
 every direction. The Capital grounds consist of four acres, form- 
 ing a park of rare beauty. 
 
 The State Library contains some 20,000 carefully selected 
 volumes, and all of the newspapers of the State as well as the 
 principal papers of California and periodicals of the United States 
 are kept on file. Every one has the privileges of the library. 
 
 The Federal Building is an imposing new brick structure of 
 four stories, costing $150,000, and contains an elegant post office, 
 unsurpassed in either architectural design or completeness of 
 equipment by any other on the Pacific Coast. 
 
 Visitors who are numismatically inclined can gratify their 
 curiosity by visiting the thorughly equipped United States Mint. 
 
 The pre-historic footprints, which have attracted the general 
 attention of scientists and excited great interest at the World's 
 Fair, where some of them are exhibited, may be seen and ex- 
 amined at the State Prison, a mile east of town. They are 
 remarkably distinct and are found under stone stratifications 
 twenty feet in thickness. 
 
 Shaw's Hot Springs are situated a mile north of town and are 
 reached by free carriages running every hour. These springs 
 possess wonderful curative properties and are considered to be 
 amongst the most valuable in the world. There are two swim- 
 ming baths, each thirty by sixty feet in dimension and with a 
 graded depth of from four and a half to six feet. All kinds of 
 baths may be had and any degree of natural heat obtained. The 
 charges are very reasonable and the management is polite and 
 accommodating. 
 
The flume yards, less than a mile south, are well worth visiting. 
 They constitute the terminus of water transportation and the 
 commencement of rail service for the wood, lumber and timber 
 supplies of the Comstock mines as well as those of Esmeralda and 
 the southern country. Over $40,000,000 worth of forest products 
 have been transported through these flumes and yards to the 
 Comstock mines alone. 
 
 Many other attractions are to be found in the immediate 
 vicinity which space forbids describing but which the visitor will 
 find to be of interest as well as instructive. 
 
 The clear mountain air will be found an excellent tonic in 
 bracing up the nervous system and a valuable adjunct in assisting 
 the recovery of persons under treatment. For this reason Carson 
 has been selected and we believe possesses more natural advant- 
 ages in restoring health than are to be found at any other institute 
 in the United States. 
 
 The Class Who Take The Cure. 
 
 Drunkards Who Fondly Imagine They are Keeping It to Themselves. 
 
 It is supposed by those who are unacquainted with the class of 
 people taking the "Keeley Cure," that they are generally persons 
 of low character, and disreputable habits, in addition to their 
 drunkenness. This is a mistake. 
 
 Investigation will prove that a large majority are persons who 
 possess high qualities naturally, both of the mind and heart. Take 
 a class of 50 patients, from this or any other Keeley Institute, 
 and compare them with any 50 men you can find upon the best 
 streets of any city, and they will compare favorably. All walks of 
 life are represented here, but principally those who are educated 
 and intelligent people. 
 
 It is very often the case, with those who contemplate taking 
 the treatment, that they hesitate to begin, fearing that it will be 
 generally known that they are doing so, which will bring discredit 
 and lower them in the estimation of their friends and the public. 
 This feeling of sensativeness should be overcome since it is a 
 false one. Intelligent, thinking people now understand that 
 drunkenness is a disease, and as such should be treated by specific 
 medication, and is not regarded as a vice to be overcome by will 
 power or moral suasion. 
 
 It is a remarkable fact that drinking men believe that but few, 
 if any persons, know that they are drunkards. They deceive 
 themselves in this particular, and think they deceive others also, 
 
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 but the truth is, that no man has ever been able, or ever will be 
 able, to conceal this fact from his friends or even acquaintances. 
 
 It is certainly more manly and commendable to determine to 
 shake off the shackles of drunkenness, by taking a cure for the 
 disease, than to continue a slave to its degrading influence. A 
 few days after beginning treatment, the change for the better in 
 his whole condition, physical, mental and moral, is so pronounced, 
 that his appreciation will find expression, and in his happiness he 
 will want everyone to know of it, and all his friends to take the 
 treatment. Instead of lowering him, it will elevate him in the 
 esteem of those whose good will is worth having; and when his 
 cure is completed and he returns to his home, he will find the 
 right hand of fellowship cordially extended him, and his family 
 and friends will have a trust in him, and confidence in his future, 
 which will enable him speedily to regain his proper place in soci- 
 ety, and compel the respect and esteem of his fellow-men. 
 
 The question is sometimes asked: "Is it dangerous to take the 
 treatment?" "Will it injure the functions of the brain, or general 
 health?" 
 
 No, it is not dangerous or injurious. A child, under certain 
 instructions could take a barrel full of it without injurious conse- 
 quences. The effect of the treatment, is to accomplish a complete 
 renovation, and restore the functions of the body to their normal 
 condition. It puts a man back to the same condition he was in 
 before he ever tasted liquor; and in many instances, in a better 
 state of health. 
 
 Before accepting a patient for the treatment, a careful physical 
 examination is made to see if any conditions are present contra- 
 indicating the treatment; such as fatty degeneration of the heart; 
 advanced state of consumption ; advanced Brights disease, etc. 
 In advanced stages of such diseases, it would be unwise to with- 
 draw the stimulant necessary to prolong life. All drinking men 
 have some irregular action of the heart. This is due to alcoholic 
 poisoning, and not to organic diseases. In a few days after taking 
 treatment such symptons disappear never to return. As before 
 stated, the treatment effects a complete renovation. 
 
 The bloated, expressionless face; bleary bloodshot eyes ; languid, 
 unsteady walk and carriage is changed. He looks indeed as 
 though he had been made over again. His eyes are bright and 
 clear; his face has the appearance of health, and his whole de- 
 meanor shows the happy change that has taken place not only 
 of the body but of his moral nature as well. 
 
 It is believed by many that if a man drinks liquor, after taking 
 the cure, it would kill him. The truth of the matter is this. 
 After being cured, the system is in the condition it was before 
 
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 alcohol was used. A man would have to accustom his system, 
 gradually, to the toleration of liquor, and again the disease would 
 have to be established. Now, if a cured man should begin drink- 
 ing at once, the amount of liquor he had been using just before he 
 took treatment, his system would not tolerate it, and it would act, 
 in all probability, as an active poison ; just as the same quantity 
 of liquor would act upon a person who had never taken any at all. 
 A man cannot begin drinking the same amount, after being 
 cured, that he used before, without danger. There never need be 
 any fear that alcoholic stimulants, given medicinally, in sickness, 
 etc., will be dangerous. But as stated, liquor should be avoided 
 under all circumstances, if possible, for the reason that the liquor 
 disease may insidiously become established again. 
 
 A Concise Keeley Catechism. 
 
 So many articles have appeared touching the Keeley Cure, 
 that the following article has been prepared to answer the numer- 
 ous questions that arise, and upon which there seems to be still 
 some doubt and ignorance: 
 
 Is this cure approved by any high authority? 
 
 Yes, the highest; for the Keeley Treatment for the Liquor, 
 Opium and Tobacco Habits has received the endorsement of the 
 United States Government, and will now be used in all its State 
 and Military Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and Sailors. 
 This recent contract ends all discussion whether the cure is of 
 practical value. It is to be used by the Government in twenty-one 
 States, and in seven National Homes. 
 
 Is it a delusion, or mental science, or faith- cure or hypnotism? 
 
 It is a positive and radical medical treatment. It consists of a 
 hypodermic injection into the arm four times a day, and the recep- 
 tion into the stomach, at frequent intervals, of a tonic especially 
 prepared for the purpose. Warm baths and nutritious food are 
 insisted upon. There is no more secrecy or mystery connected 
 with the treatment than in the practice of any regular physician. 
 
 The injection causes about as much pain as the prick of a needle. 
 Sometimes there is a lack of appetite following, sometimes 
 a little nausea, and generally a disposition to be quiet, with good 
 sleep and plenty of it. 
 
 The effects of the treatment are generally noticed at once. The 
 patient desires less and less drink, his system craves and will 
 retain nutritious food, and in two or three days liquors placed be- 
 fore him will not be touched. 
 
In most cases the work is done in three weeks. After the first 
 week the patient is a new man; he is then tonned up and fitted to 
 resist temptation. 
 
 It puts him back where he was; he is as if he never had been a 
 drinker; it takes away the love of drink. Liquor has no attraction. 
 It stands in the same relation to him as any other nauseous drug. 
 If a man will drink he must begin anew. Very few will do this, 
 knowing what they have been through. Statistics kept for eight 
 years show about 95 per cent, of permanent cures. 
 
 As a rule, a man will not be faithful with himself in any home 
 treatment. The Keeley Cure is more than to take medicine into 
 the stomach. Regularity and freedom from old associations are 
 necessary. The patient is with those who, like himself, are bent 
 upon one end; the patients inspire one another. There is a 
 happy and cordial enthusiasm in all, over a friend's recovery. 
 
 Compared with the happy results it costs very little . A single 
 debauch costs more than an entire cure. Thirty-five dollars a 
 week is the charge , which includes treatment and medicines. Board 
 is extra, and is graded to the wish and purse of the patient. 
 
 Names are never mentioned. The whole affair, both in corres- 
 pondence and in everything connected with the treatment, is a mat- 
 ter of delicate confidence. Patients are protected and not exposed. 
 
 Let the patient come sober, if possible, but should he come 
 suffering from a debauch he will at once be attended to and helped 
 toward a speedy cure. 
 
 There are no bolts or bars. Kindly care is always given, and 
 he will be protected during his stay till he goes out a redeemed 
 man. 
 
 Alcoholism and Opiumism are Diseases. 
 
 No greater change of thought has been witnessed in modern 
 times than in relation to the victims of narcotics. Fifty years ago 
 the excessive use of narcotics was almost universally regarded as a 
 vice, the baneful effects of which ought to be severely punished as 
 a crime. Severity of punishment was thought to be necessary for 
 the reform of the victims and for the vindication of the rights of 
 the community. So deeply rooted was this conviction in the pub- 
 lic mind that ministers and churches had nothing but unsparing 
 denunciations and rigid exclusions to deal out to the offenders. 
 The victims of alcohol and opium were regarded as the scum and 
 offscouring of all things, fit only to be kicked into the gutter, or 
 incarcerated in some dreary dungeon, and notwithstanding the 
 fact that medical science has established the truth that alcoholism 
 
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 and opiumism are diseases, which must be dealt with as such, 
 and yet there is a great majority of Christian people who have given 
 so little attention to the scientific facts that they still live and move, 
 and have their being in a dream of ignorance ; they fondly cherish 
 the old delusion, and their acts are in harmony with their cruel, 
 vindictive thoughts. We ask the candid attention of our readers 
 to what are now the undisputed facts of science in relation to the 
 victims of alcohol and opium. The fact that alcoholism is a 
 disease is the foundation stone upon which the Keeley Institute 
 is built. Dr. Leslie Keeley was one of the earliest advocates of 
 this fundamental truth. So firmly convinced was he of the truth 
 of this postulate that he gave more than twenty years of his val- 
 uable life in investigations and researches for a remedy for this 
 fell disease. His patience and devotion were at last crowned with 
 success in the discovery of that invaluable specific, the Double 
 Chloride of Gold, which bears his name. To-day the truth is gen- 
 erally recognized by leading physicians and by eminent men, that 
 alcoholism is a disease which needs scientific treatment, but 30 
 years ago such an idea met with the most violent antagonism, 
 especially from ministers of the Gospel, because it seemed to be 
 opposed to the current code or morality. The great change of 
 opinion is doubtless, in great measure, due to the intelligent and 
 persistent advocacy of this truth by Dr. L. E. Keeley. To him, 
 therefore, belongs the honor of preparing the way for the rational 
 treatment of the disease, as well as that of providing an infallible 
 remedy. The world is doubly indebted to this great discoverer, 
 and now that his system of cure has been in operation for more 
 than fourteen years, and a great army of more than 200,000 per- 
 sons have been cured of these narcotic diseases; the most terrible 
 that afflict humanity; his statements are most certainly entitled to 
 the candid, earnest consideration of every thoughtful, intelligent 
 and Christian mind. 
 
 Dr. Keeley Tells the History and Effect of His Remedy. 
 
 In addressing the Press Club Association, of Chicago, Dr. 
 Keeley spoke as follows: 
 
 Ladies and Gentlemen : I am here to-night by invitation of 
 the Press Club of Chicago to speak of my remedy for the liquor 
 habit, and discuss the subject, "Is Drunkenness a Disease?" 
 Unfortunately for you, perhaps, who will listen to me, I have never 
 had occasion to address an audience before, in consequence of 
 which, if I fall short of your expectations, I crave your forbear- 
 ance. 
 
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 Thirty years ago the idea first occurred to me that inebriety 
 was a disease and should be rationally treated as other diseases. 
 You know that insanity within our own day has advanced in 
 pathology from the conception of demonical possession to that of 
 bodily disease. The remedy for insanity was formerly the court, 
 the jail, and even punishment by death. In fact, survivals of 
 these methods and cures and treatments of the insane yet exist 
 to some extent, though the law and moral sentiment are begin- 
 ning to recognize that insane people are not morally responsible. 
 
 I do not claim that society is yet ready to accept the conclu- 
 sion that confirmed inebriates are morally irresponsible, but 
 society is now obliged to accept the fact that confirmed inebriety 
 is a disease. The evidences of this fact comprise all the evidence 
 there is of the existence of any disease. There is poison as a 
 cause. There are symptons and signs of disease. These facts 
 have long been known, but there is now the additional evidence 
 which is confirmatory that the disease of inebriety is curable by 
 medicine. 
 
 The moral factor of inebriety has always stood in the way of 
 the recognition by the public that inebriety is a disease. The 
 alcoholized patient or culprit, or prisioner, is held responsible 
 morally because he buys the poison voluntarily, and takes it him- 
 self, which brings into the case the factor of vice, viewed from 
 the standpoint of law and morality. Setting aside this factor 
 there is no difference in general terms between drunkenness or 
 alcoholism and typhoid-fever or insanity, and, in fact, when we 
 continue the analysis of the features of likeness there is no differ- 
 ence. 
 
 The germ diseases, as typhoid-fever, consumption, scarlet-fever 
 and diphtheria are caused by germ poison, and it was formerly the 
 custom to call these diseases "providential" or visitations from 
 God, the reason being that the cause was unknown. Now, how- 
 ever, that the cause is known we learn that the public and indi- 
 viduals are as responsible morally for the existence of these 
 poisons as they are for the existence of alcohol. A man who 
 refuses to be vaccinated or refuses this protection to his family is 
 responsible if smallpox is the consequence. Communities which 
 neglect sanitation and have a death rate of ten or twenty above 
 the minimum rate per 1,000 are responsible for the consequent 
 sickness and death, An individual who uses water that he knows 
 or should know may be contaminated and gets typhoid-fever 
 therefrom is morally as responsible as the man who drinks alcohol 
 uutil he becomes a drunkard . 
 
 From these facts, then, I can see no difference in a general 
 sense between the diseases of inebriety and typhoid-fever and other 
 
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 diseases. They are all, every one, caused by poisons which pro- 
 duce the disease, and individuals and communities are equally 
 responsible from the moral standpoint for all diseases that are 
 preventable. 
 
 Inebriety also bears the same relation to cure and prevention 
 that other diseases do. All diseases including inebriety, should 
 be prevented rather than cured, but this world while truly seeking 
 the art of preventing all diseases, has not yet reached the goal. 
 This being true, it follows that diseases which cannot be prevented 
 must be cured, if possible. The evidences of modern times that 
 are now in the hands of the optimist who seeks to prove that the 
 world grows better are the facts that people who can think now 
 treat the insane and the inebriates and the criminals, not so much 
 with the object of punishment as with the object of cure. Lunatic 
 asylums are now hospitals. Penitentaries are being taken away 
 from politicians and contractors, and converted into reformatory 
 colleges. As yet, however, the government knows but little about 
 the treatment of inebriates, and the public institutions which 
 receive the victims of alcoholic poison from the police courts are 
 still known as bridewells, jails and penitentaries. The reforma- 
 tion of inebriates, as you would call it from the moral standpoint, 
 is yet in the hands of private enterprise, and these reformatories 
 c an date back only a few years. 
 
 Alcoholism as a Disease. 
 
 Synopsis of an Address to His Patients by Dr. Leslie E. Keeley. 
 
 Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, to whom is largely 
 due the credit of making known to an astonished world that a 
 cure exists for inebriety, gave in his paper about a year ago an 
 address of Dr. Leslie E. Keeley on the pathology of alcoholism, 
 which occupied four columns. In an editorial summary of the 
 address, Mr. Medill termed it a remarkable paper, and it is, for it 
 traces the subject in a technical manner through all its phases. In 
 his summary Mr. Medill wrote: 
 
 "The most radical point is that in regard to the heredity of 
 disease, which he contends protects people rather than destroys 
 them, because it builds up a protection against disease which may 
 amount to an immunity, and this is true of the hereditary drinker, 
 he being the so-called temperance drinker. "The "Christian" 
 American or European inheiits a tolerance to the poison of alco- 
 hol from "a line of poison-pestered ancestry," so that he is able 
 to consume without trouble a quantity that would make a drunk- 
 
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 ard of an Indian or Hottentot or a Hindoo. Immunity from the 
 action of poisons is only given by the action of poisons them- 
 selves. This may be obtained by inocculation, as small-pox, or 
 by long use, in which case it will become hereditary. The man 
 who can inhale sewer gas containing tubercle bacilli and escape 
 consumption is the one whose ancestors had so long been poisoned 
 by the phthisis microbe that they had acquired immunity from 
 its attacks. But if the man be no longer exposed to the infection, 
 and his children be exempt from it, their descendants will in time 
 begin to suffer from the disease. It is precisely so, Dr. Keeley 
 claims, with alcohol and the germs of consumption. If neither of 
 these two poisons were in the world the trouble of inebriety might 
 be avoided and the coercive teetotal advocate might find his long- 
 wished for millennium. But the fact remains that if prohibition 
 ever succeeds it will be after the banishment of the infections of 
 disease and their poisons and if we could prohibit disease infec- 
 tion the question of alcohol prohibition would take care of itself. 
 
 The diagnosis of consumption and chronic alcoholism as hered- 
 itary diseases is declared to be an error, though sanctioned by 
 boards of health and life insurance companies. They do not 
 know, or ignore, the relation of a poison to the tissue cells, the 
 latter varying by use to "a tolerance of the poison." It is this var- 
 iation which in either case is transmitted by heredity, and it fol- 
 lows from this that the 'inheritance is an immunity from the 
 poison and not a transmission of disease.' This action is upon 
 the nerve cell, not because of any special selectiveness as sup- 
 posed by some, but simply because the nerve is the most sensi- 
 tive of all the tissues to influence from without. The action of 
 alcohol upon it is to prevent its nutrition, reproduction and special 
 function. If this be done in too great excess the cell is destroyed 
 as an organism, if so gently that it may be borne the effect is 
 simply perversive. The changed organism transmits the variation 
 to its successors, just as the dental system of the animal world 
 would change if for a long time there were no grass for the cow 
 or no flesh for the carnivora to feed upon. But this variation does 
 not cause inebriety by heredity, though it may be difficult to say 
 how many generations are required to gain immunity from 
 alcohol. 
 
 "The same is true of the ptomaines of consumption, of which 
 only one person in seven dies, for the reason that all the rest have 
 acquired an immunity from its poison. Heredity has improved 
 species not by merely transmitting likeness, but by giving an in- 
 crement of variation with each succeeding generation, by which 
 the race becomes better able to live. 
 
 "Atavism, or the tendency to return to a former type, is an 
 
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 important element of reform in cases of abuse of an organ or 
 function, and in a physiological sense this largely depends upon 
 the rapidity of action by the poison. It is in this relation to the 
 human organism that alcohol stands out as far less dangerous than 
 morphine . The variation of cells brought on by the use of the 
 latter is so slow that it is next to impossible for an opium-eater to 
 control his appetite for morphia, while the alcoholic poison acts so 
 rapidly that the atavistic recovery of the cells only requires a few 
 weeks' time, even without special treatment Chloroform and ether 
 are rapid in their action, and thus allow speedy recovery from 
 their attacks. On the other hand the ptomaines of disease (the 
 poison from the microbes) act slowly. Two or more weeks are 
 required in each of the acute diseases to establish a cell variation 
 sufficient to make them tolerate the poison, and the cells may hold 
 this variation for many years, during which the person enjoys immu- 
 nity from a return of the disease. This is true of small-pox, 
 typhus, typhoid, consumption, diphtheria, cholera, and the yel- 
 low and other fevers, all of which are caused by poisons manufact- 
 ured by microbes. All run their course till the cells have become 
 accustomed to their influence. Then if the organism has been 
 killed off it recovers, because when once it can resist the poison of 
 a given disease that disease must come to an end. 
 
 ''The change produced in the nerve tissues by alcohol is gener- 
 ally but an isomeric one; that is, and identity of element? and atomic 
 proportions, the difference being only in the quantity combined 
 in the molecule. It does not cause a degenerative change of 
 tissue nor true imflammation, though it may have a prepossessing 
 influence in the etiology of some diseases. Hence there is nothing 
 in the way of a cure of alcoholism by following the course of 
 nature in bringing around the atavism of the cells after a debauch 
 This can best be done by gradual reduction of the supply, a sud- 
 den cutting off being not only cruel, but often dangerous. For 
 both that and the opium habit it may be said that when a man 
 can live without distress for a week in the absence of the stimulus 
 his recovery from the disease is assured." 
 
 In closing his paper of which the above is a condensation, Dr. 
 Keeley used this language: 
 
 "The scientific and humane method of treating an inebriate, no 
 matter what the poison, is to gradually reduce the 'drug' and bring 
 about the atavism of the cells by equal methods. In alcoholic 
 poisoning this can be done in a comparatively short time My 
 emulsion combines food principles with an alcoholic preparation 
 which supplies the needed nerve nourishment, and the drug 
 required to secure atavism of the nerve cells speedily and easily. 
 After one night's sleep and generally not over two doses of the 
 
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 emulsion the patient will refuse liquor if offered him. He is now 
 ready for the cure and the remedy is at once administered and 
 continued for three weeks, when the patient is cured. 
 
 "I will say that in the discovery of my method I did not follow 
 empirical experiment alone. I investigated the question on the 
 lines of natural selection relating to pathology. As pathology 
 (disease) is caused by poisons I learned that cells acquire an im- 
 munity from poison by being poisoned. I learned this immunity 
 lasts very long in ptomaine poisoning but is short in other poisons 
 mineral poisons and poisons like alcohol. I finally learned that 
 metals used as drugs (or certain metals), will obliterate the vesti- 
 ges of variation, or whatever changes there may be in nerve cells, 
 after alcohol and other poisons. 
 
 "Continued drinking or alcoholic poisoning makes the chronic 
 drunkard. A cessation of drinking and recurrence on provocation 
 and at periodical intervals makes a periodical drunkard, so called. 
 In one case the drunkard never recovers from the poisoning. His 
 tolerance to alcohol becomes very great and some of these inebri- 
 ates drink surprising quantities of alcohol. I find these patients 
 as easily cured as the periodical drinkers. 
 
 " The periodical inebriate has his 'spells' (or sprees) and always 
 reforms between spells. When he reforms he and his friends de- 
 clare he will never take another drink. He learns that it is the 
 first drink that ruins him, and his friends learn it also. This ine- 
 briate signs pledges, joins the church, goes to the 'home,' takes 
 medicine, 'turns over a new leaf,' and 'swears off.' He takes ma- 
 terial and spiritual nostrums of all or any kinds which are offered. 
 He prays for strength and guidance, but his next spree comes 
 around on time or a little earlier. 
 
 " Now, we know that no phenomenon ever occurs in this world, 
 either in the mental or physical world, that is not the resultant of 
 opposing forces. There is no volition except from two thoughts 
 or impulses. There is no thought that is not founded likewise. 
 There is no action of what is called function unless there are two 
 forces behind it. There is no disease that is not a resultant of a 
 poison resisted by physiology. 
 
 " But all the force has rythm. Thought is rythmical. The 
 mind obeys the same law. If a man has a habit sometimes the 
 man conquers, but sometimes the habit has the pole. When a 
 periodical drunkard poisons his nerve centers he soon drowns out 
 feeling, conscience, sensation, emotion, will and thought. The 
 cells are staggered and paralyzed. The more violent the onslaught 
 the more violent the resistance and the greater the reaction and 
 also the greater the variation. In a few days the inebriate's 
 stomach will not bear food. He gives out generally, and as his 
 
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 alcohol fails to intoxicate and his stomach fails to retain the drug, 
 he begins to think, and remorse gets the start, and after a spell of 
 agony, more or less severe, the next reformation follows. 
 
 " The moral conduct and life of this man are now the index of 
 his will resisted by his diseased nerve cells. After a debauch his 
 will is stronger. In time he loses his resistance by some machin- 
 ation or influence, and the debauch is repeated. This class of 
 cases is as easily curable as the other. The cure restores the in- 
 tegrity of the nerve cells. There is no longer the periodical de- 
 bauch, the rythm is broken up." 
 
 The Chicago Tribune, ever faithful to the Keeley cure after its 
 thorough iuvestigations and tests, of March 26, 1892, has this to 
 say: 
 
 " During the year and one-half since the Tribune first called 
 attention to Dr. Leslie E. Keeley's method of curing the disease 
 of inebriety, a remarkable change has taken place in public opin- 
 ion on this subject. Many thousands of men have been cured, 
 and while some have returned to the gutter the great majority 
 have become living evidences of the truth of Dr. Keeley's disease 
 theory, and have fully justified the Tribune in giving up so much 
 space to this effort for practical temperance. The movement has 
 undoubtedly resulted in the large pecuniary success of Dr. Keeley 
 and his associates, but with this the public has very little to do. 
 When Dr. Keeley's theories were first made public in the columns 
 of this paper they were subjected to bitter criticism on the part 
 of the great majority of the medical profession. Recent letters 
 furnished to the Tribune show that now the leading membes of 
 the profession are becoming converts to the disease theory of in- 
 ebriety." 
 
 The Tribune then gives letters from Dr. J. K. Bauduy, LL.D., 
 professor of psychological medicines and diseases of the nervous 
 system, of the University of Missouri ; Dr. S. K. Crawford, late 
 professor of surgical anatomy in the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, Chicago; Dr. Oscar C. De Wolf, Commissioner of 
 Health, Chicago, and member of the British association for the 
 advancement of science, and Dr. Romine S. Curtiss, surgeon of 
 the Illinois Steel Company and surgeon in charge of St. Joseph's 
 Hospital, Joliet, Illinois. Each is an unqualified endorsement, 
 based on many years' acquaintance with Dr. Keeley, and his 
 specialties, and by men who have no interest in him or his treat- 
 ment. 
 
 The valuable testimonies of these distinguished physicians can 
 be had, printed l in eltenso' in separate pamphlet on application at 
 the Keeley Institute, Carson City, Nev. Keeley Current Literature. 
 
15 
 G. E, Sussdorff, M. D. 
 
 Physician-in-Chief at the Institute, late of Los Gatos, but no\v 
 of Carson City, Nevada, in a very valuable lecture given to the 
 Bi-Chloride of Gold Club, Los Gatos, March 3, 1892, gives the 
 following lucid explanation of the fact that Alcoholism is a Dis- 
 ease : 
 Members of the Bi-Chloride of Gold Club of Los Gatos, Ladies 
 
 and Gentlemen : 
 
 In response to your invitation to address you to-night I have 
 selected a subject which I know is of paramount importance to 
 you personally and of the deepest interest to the public at large. 
 I mean the Keeley Bi-Chloride of Gold treatment for the cure of 
 drunkenness. 
 
 y; is a work which I have entered into with enthusiasm and one 
 which affords me not only a delightful study, but unbounded sat- 
 isfaction. 
 
 I will confine myself to-night to a consideration of one part of 
 the subject only alcoholism, or the disease of drunkenness, its 
 treatment and cure leaving that of the opium and kindred affec- 
 tions for another occasion. 
 
 What is alcoholism, or drunkenness ? Is it a disease or is it a 
 vice ? 
 
 There can be no greater authority upon this point than Dr. 
 Keeley himself, who says : 
 
 ''Alcoholism, viewed from a physiological side, is a disease 
 viewed from its social side it is generally esteemed a vice. In- 
 sanity was once believed to be a vice. Those unfortunate crea- 
 tures afflicted with insanity were supposed to be possessed of a 
 demon and were thus punished by divine vengeance, when they 
 were simply suffering from a disease whose seat was in the brain, 
 the centre of the nervous system." 
 
 Students of the physiology and pathology of the brain and 
 nervous system have demonstrated scientifically to the world that 
 insanity is a result of a diseased condition of the brain, that it is 
 itself a disease. In the same way and by a like process of study, 
 alcoholism has been demonstrated to be a disease situated in the 
 brain and nervous system generally. 
 
 Post mortem examinations do not reveal the conditions of in- 
 herited insanity in the brain, neither can those of inherited ^alco- 
 holism be demonstrated, but when drunkenness is once established 
 the diseased conditions are always the same and are easily recog- 
 nized. 
 
 It is as much a disease as typhoid fever, small-pox, paralysis or 
 insanity. 
 
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 I will not touch upon the subject of inherited alcoholic disease. 
 Its consideration is too complex to be made intelligible in the 
 limits of the short time at my disposal. It would require hours 
 for its elucidation. I will, therefore, speak only of acquired alco- 
 holism, or that form of drunkenness which is established primarily 
 by the poisonous use of spirituous liquors. 
 
 The acquired or developed disease is readily recognized by the 
 presence in the tissues of the brain of certain pathological condi- 
 tions which are as distinctive as the pathology of any other dis- 
 ease. The grey matter of the brain and its covering, the men- 
 inges are congested, that is, too full of blood. There is in the 
 ventricles and arachnoidal cavity an effusion of serum. In cases 
 of long standing the congestion has become chronic inflammation 
 with thickening of the meninges, engorgement of blood-vessels 
 and abnormal products, such as serum, sero-pus and even pu it- 
 self. The spinal cord is also affected, more or less, in the same 
 manner. The nerve filaments radiating from the brain and spinal 
 cord are also diseased, while the sympathetic or ganglion ic nerve 
 centers come in for their share of injury. 
 
 How does liquor or alcohol bring about this pathognomic change 
 in the tissues and establish a disease ? This process has been 
 carefully studied, but it must suffice at this time only to roughly 
 outline it. The word alcohol is used instead of the words whisky 
 and liquor, because alcohol is the agent present in all the fluids 
 used for stimulants. The properties of alcohol are to produce heat 
 in the human body. It is, in certain amounts, consumed by vital 
 processes and converted into heat. In this way it gives warmth 
 to the body by causing quick changes in the various tissues of the 
 body. In certain limited amounts alcohol is consumed readily 
 and with benefit. A few ounces only, however, answer this pur- 
 pose. In larger amounts alcohol enters the circulation unchanged. 
 It is too great in amount and cannot be burnt up. It circulates 
 in the blood as pure unchanged alcohol, and is deposited in and 
 upon all the various tissues composing the animal economy. In 
 time the whole system becomes literally saturated with it and dis- 
 ease is then established in its most horrible form. 
 
 How does the presence of alcohol in the tissues cause disease ? 
 
 In this way It has a preference for nerve tissue, acting upon 
 it more energetically than others. An isomeric change takes 
 place and coagulation or hardening of this structure ensues. 
 
 When this has occurred the function of the nervous system is 
 impaired and vitiated in direct ratio to the injury received. 
 
 That alcohol has the power to coagulate albumen can easily be 
 illustrated in a simple way by any one who chooses to try the ex- 
 periment. 
 
Take the white of an egg, which is pure albumen, and put it 
 into a vessel containing eight or ten ounces of alcohol. A change 
 will soon take place in the white of the egg, like that which oc- 
 curs when heat is applied, as in boiling water, or applied other- 
 wise in cooking. It is simply hardened, or in other words coag- 
 ulated. It has gone through what is called an isomeric change. 
 
 A large proportion of brain matter and of other nerve tissue is 
 albumenous. 
 
 It will, therefore, readily be seen how alcohol in its pure state 
 acts upon the nerves and changes their structure by a process of 
 hardening. 
 
 When this has occurred, these parts are so changed anatomic- 
 ally and physiologically, that their function is greatly impaired and 
 perverted. So much so is the case that now the system requires 
 a constant supply of alcohol as a stimulant, which has become 
 necessary to urge the vital forces to go on with their work. It has 
 become a necessity, and the economy imperiously demands the 
 daily supply and in increasing quantity. 
 
 The system has now become absolutely dependent for support 
 upon the stimulant. 
 
 The fire is burning furiously and fuel must be added to the 
 flames. 
 
 This is indeed a most unnatural state, a most abnormal condi- 
 tion a terrible disease. 
 
 This diseased state is the ultimate result in all who use this 
 stimulant in poisonous quantities. . 
 
 There are two kinds of drunkards one who drinks daily and 
 one who drinks periodically. Both are traveling the same road 
 from the first, but under different circumstances. The one goes 
 along at a regular pace, the other travels by short, but very quick 
 stages, with an interval to take rest. Soon, however, he finds his 
 periods of rest grow shorter, and before long there are no inter- 
 vals at all, but he is furiously speeding along and must soon reach 
 the end. 
 
 The class who have periodical fits of drinking are the more dif- 
 ficult to treat than at first thought would seem likely. 
 
 In this class there, is generally found an antecedent history of 
 hereditary disease, which taint breaks forth in explosions at inter- 
 vals. It is closely allied to insanity. There is a sort of rythm in 
 their periodicity. If the period of their return could be calculated 
 with certainty, it would not be hard to avert them, still, while 
 there is some difficulty and more watchfulness required, this class, 
 like the class of steady and continuous drinkers, can have the dis- 
 ease eradicated. In other words, no matter how this condition is 
 
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 induced in the beginning, whether by social influences or by in- 
 herited tendency, the result is the same in all particulars. 
 
 In this pathological state of the nervous system, its function is 
 so much perverted that only false sensations are received and 
 transmitted by the brain. 
 
 The intelligence and reason, as well as the emotions, are unbal- 
 anced and perturbed, giving rise to erroneous and illogical ideas, 
 disordered actions, and to that general mental condition, which 
 renders a man unfit to discharge his duties to his God, his neigh- 
 bor and himself. The drunkard, consequently, is not a responsi- 
 ble being, either to society or himself. He is a sick man, morally 
 and physically. He is unable to keep himself in proper relation- 
 ship to his environments. 
 
 This being a fact all this being plainly true how shall this 
 evil be met ? How can it be overcome ? Shall it continue to be 
 regarded as a social vice, or acknowledged to be a terrible disease 
 to be treated by the physician as other diseases are ? Yes, that 
 is the better and only way. " It is just as rational," says Dr. 
 Keeley, " from a medical standpoint to treat drunkenness by ex- 
 postulation, pledge-signing, reproaches and legislation, as it for- 
 merly was to treat insanity by incantations, the exhibition of 
 saint's bones, or the laying on of the hands." 
 
 The tears, the agony, the starvation and social misery of the 
 drunkard's family ; the insanity, mental imbecility and criminality 
 of his progeny the overflowing penetentiaries, jails and poor- 
 houses, and the millions of unmarked and unhonored drunkard's 
 graves, are powerless now, and always have been powerless, to 
 cure this disease of drunkenness." 
 
 This cause and effect of drunkeness being established, what is 
 the remedy for this terrible evil ? 
 
 The world has been asking this question for hundreds of years' 
 It has been the subject of study of philosophers, statesmen, 
 churchmen, physicians and scientists the world over. 
 
 For the last few decades this evil has seemed to gain new 
 strength, it has been growing more rapidly, until now its victims 
 are so numerous that it is appalling to contemplate. The past 
 twenty years have been noted for self indulgence of every kind, 
 Every means has been sought that would pander to the senses. 
 
 Pleasure, or the inordinate gratification of the senses has been 
 to the unthinking multitude the only thing desirable in life. 
 What wonder then that intoxicating poisons should be largely re- 
 sorted to in order to obtain this end. The time is coming soon 
 when a halt will be called, and society will change from its frivol- 
 ity to a more sensible and rational mode of living. The influences 
 for for better ways of living are already being felt. Among these 
 
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 influences a wonderful and marvelous means has come for destroy- 
 ing one of the greatest of these evils. 
 
 The close of the nineteenth century is marked by a great dis- 
 covery, and the hand of Almighty God should be recognized in 
 this. 
 
 For twenty-five years a man, a physician, in a small Illinois 
 town, toiled patiently and searched unremittingly for a remedy for 
 the curse of drunkenness. At last his efforts were crowned with 
 success, and an absolute potent and infailible cure has been given 
 to the world in the remedy which bears his name, " The Leslie E. 
 Keeley Bi-Chloride of Gold Remedy." 
 
 This remedy is specific in its effects. 
 
 It acts immediately as an alterative and resolvent upon the 
 brain, spinal chord and sympathetic nerve centers, and as if by 
 magic. Selecting these tissues by some inherent power as afield 
 for its operations, it shows itself to be the natural antidote for al- 
 coholic poison. 
 
 When given by the stomach it is absorbed rapidly it is ab- 
 sorbed instantly by the capillaries of the skin, when given hypo- 
 dermically, and is carried into the general circulation. Each blood 
 corpuscle cheerfully freights itself with the golden treasure, and 
 deposits it upon and around the hardened tissues of the nerves. 
 Then it causes absorption, sucks up the diseased tissues, and again 
 carries it around to those organs whose functions it is to eliminate 
 and throw it off from the system as waste and worthless ma- 
 terial. 
 
 While it is so actively, so industriously effecting the work, it 
 causes no shock to the system, no pain, no distress. It carries 
 with it rather a soothing influence, and soon changes feeling and 
 sensati-n to one of contentment and peace. 
 
 To me this is a most wonderful thing in medicine, that there 
 should be found an agent so powerful for good and yet so gentle 
 and harmless in its operation. The therapeutics of this remedy 
 are founded upon some sublime law of nature, perhaps not now 
 understood, but fully appreciated. 
 
 Somewhere I have read these words, " The laws which have 
 their foundations laid deep in the Eternal Verities are not 
 shackles, but supports, to keep our feeble humanity from falling 
 again into Chaos." Truly it does seem that the law of the 
 Eternal Verities has been obeyed, and that our feeble humanity 
 has now a means of rescue from the Chaotic condition of drunk- 
 enness. 
 
 Is all this merely a delusion ? Can it be true ? 
 
 It is no delusion. It is all true, marvelously true. In evidence 
 of its truth thousands of men testify, not only by their words but 
 
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 by their lives. Daily and hourly the throng of rescued men is 
 increasing. 
 
 This means of treatment will go on in its conquering career un- 
 til every man sick with the disease is reached and cured of his' 
 sickness. 
 
 What are the after effects of the treatment? 
 
 All the accumulated evidence goes to show that it effects a com- 
 plete renovation, a great physical, mental and moral change, 
 
 The psycological elements are in a healthy condition. The in- 
 telligence and emotions are again normal. 
 
 The disease of alcoholism causes a man to have a distorted 
 view of everything. There is an irritable, restless, unpleasant 
 way about him which is felt by every one but is difficult to de- 
 scribe. The common expression, " a complete wreck," tells the 
 story of his mental, moral and physical condition. 
 
 After being cured how changed is all this. They look as though 
 they had " been made over again." The careworn look is gone 
 and they again become in manner pleasant, agreeable gentlemen. 
 The after effect of the treatment is to make men of them again, 
 just as God intended them to be. After treatment, health, en- 
 ergy, courage and self-respect return. The affections bloom like 
 a rose. He sheds the sunshine of love and happiness about him 
 as he goes about his daily walks of life, and his family and friends 
 have a trust in him they never had before he was cured. 'The 
 old order changeth, giving place to new.' 
 
 " All over the Eastern part of our great country, in the com- 
 mercial centers of this republic, our graduates are more trusted 
 by business men than are the men who have never drank liquor 
 at all, confidence is so great in the permanency of their cure ." 
 
 The Rationale of the Keeley System. 
 
 The Physiological and philosophical principles upon which the 
 Keeley system is based can be best stated in Dr. Keeley 's own 
 words. 
 
 " Accepting the invitation of Dr. Talmage, given when that 
 eminent divine visited Dwight in April, Dr. Leslie E. Keeley ad- 
 dressed an audience of 12,000 people at the Tabernacle, Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., on Sunday evening, May 15. Dr. Keeley was en 
 route to Europe, whence he journeyed to open Keeley institutes 
 in Great Britain. The speech he made in Brooklyn was a plain, 
 everyday talk, explanatory of the causes of inebriety and why 
 alcohol is a necessity to the inebriate after he has become such. 
 We have only space here to give the eminent physician's expla- 
 
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 nation of how a cure is obtainable. The Doctor's language was 
 as follows : 
 
 " In this condition I have explained why alcohol is a necessity 
 to the inebriate, but I wish to speak on and give a reason for the 
 fact that drunkenness is periodical or rythmetical. It is so that 
 in many inebriates the rhythm is so short that the intoxication ap- 
 pears to be continuous, but the regular rhythm is there the same 
 as in the periodical drunkard, The constant drunkard is partially 
 sober in the morning, as a rule, up to the ninth hour of the day. 
 The topers who drink constantly are usually sober until late in 
 the afternoon of each day, or until a late hour in the evening. 
 These men may drink during the forenoon of reform, but, as the 
 day goes on, the system demands the poison, and by night the 
 poor wretch is as full as the round moon with its fabled resem- 
 blance to the man who comes home to meet his family. But I 
 think the larger number of drunkards are the so-called 'periodi- 
 cals,' who have an interval of total abstinence from a few days to 
 even a year or more. These men always reform after a debauch 
 a debauch which, despite their good resolutions, is sure to be 
 repeated sooner or later. Viewed from a social standpoint, the 
 reason for the lapse of good resolutions and the drunken spree 
 that follows is not always the same. Different causes seem to lead 
 to the debauch. Generally when the time comes the debauch 
 begins by social drinking ; sometimes some real or fancied illness 
 is the excuse. These men are told repeatedly by their friends 
 that they cannot take a drink without following it up until para- 
 lyzed ; but this is a difficult matter for the toper to believe. 'Why 
 can't I take a drink,' he will say, 'as well as Jones or Johnson?' 
 Yes, he may take a drink once or twice, determined that it will 
 be his last, but his effort is sure to result in failure and to end in a 
 spree. I think that the physiological and anatomical basis for the 
 extension of periodicity in drunkenness is easily found and un- 
 derstood. That drunkenness is periodical must be admitted. The 
 inebriates and their friends, as well as their enemies, all know this 
 fact. If they have a rhythm in the result, or in the phenomena 
 of the world whether in physiological, mental or biological ef- 
 fects the naturul influence will be that the forces which underlie 
 them must also be rythmetical. I have said that all things and 
 all phenomena are the products of opposing forces which are un- 
 equal. If all election forces were exactly equal, no public officer 
 would ever be elected. If gravity and the attraction of the moon 
 were equal on the waters of the ocean; there would be no tides. 
 If the sun's heat and the surface tempeaature of the earth were 
 equal, there would be no rain. If the volcanic forces in the earth 
 and the resistence of its crust had always been equal, there would 
 
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 have been no ranges of mountains. If the poisons, the microbe 
 and the resistance of the tissue cells to poison were equal, there 
 would be no disease. If a man's physical or vital resistence to 
 the poison of alcohol were equal to the alcohol, the stomach would 
 hold, no man would get drunk. He could not. He would drink 
 
 his fill. 
 
 * 
 
 THE OPPOSING FORCES. 
 
 All physical force is rhythmetical. A bar of light is rhythmeti- 
 cal. A current of electricity is rhythmetical. The action of the 
 magnet also shows this variability. All running water in a natu- 
 ral or artificial stream will show rhythm in its speed or volumn. 
 No timepiece or electrical apparatus can run without this rhyth- 
 metical action. The reason is that all motion is the result of 
 forces acting in opposition to each other, and the opposition can- 
 not always be an equal quantity. But having an understanding 
 that all forces are rhythmetical, and that all things are the products 
 of opposing forces acting unequally, let us look at the disease and 
 see if the law holds good. You know that epidemics do not pre- 
 vail continuously. They occur periodically. You know that in a 
 fever the temperature is not always the same. If typhoid, the 
 morning temperature is 102 degrees, while the evening tempera- 
 ture may be 105 degrees. All pain is naturally rhythmetical. If 
 a toothache were a constant quantity, it would kill its victims . 
 People prevent epidemics by fighting their rhythmetical returns. 
 They combat disease by remedies which break up the secret 
 rhythms of chills or fever. The chronic inebriate acquires resist- 
 ance to alcohol by free drinking. His family, friends, will, and 
 tissue cells resist it. All these make such an impression on his 
 mind that he stops drinking for a while. But these resisting forces 
 lose their power in time, and then the clamor of the tissue cells 
 for alcohol is again predominant and he goes off on another spree. 
 From this standpoint a drunkard is made up of rhythmetical epi- 
 demics, all of which forces are driving him toward drinking. If 
 all of these forces could remain equal he would be naturally cured, 
 but unfortunately they remain unequal. My remedy breaks up 
 this rhythm. It puts the inebriate in an entirely new sphere, ex- 
 ternally and internally. It is very like and about as effectual as 
 giving a man who has the ague a quantity of quinine and a change 
 of climate. It breaks up the regular swing of the pendulum 
 which ticks against sobriety on the one extreme and natural de- 
 bauchery on the other. Society naturally looks at the drunkard 
 from different standpoints. From the scientific standpoint society 
 regards liquor as a poison. The larger number of crimes are the 
 work of men who are under the influence of liquor. The drunkard 
 
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 becomes a social outcast in proportion as the sentiment against 
 drinking is developed in the public mind. The inebriate is held 
 to be morally responsible because he voluntarily buys the poison 
 and takes it himself, but in this view of the case society is respon- 
 sible for all the crimes that the drunkard commits and for the 
 disease of inebriety. Society is responsible for all diseases even 
 including insanity. 
 
 All diseases, including inebriety and insanity, could be pre- 
 vented. In my opinion drunkenness and the general consumption 
 of alcohol are due largely to imperfect laws. The time will come, 
 however, when, if a man gets typhoid fever, he will fix the respon- 
 sibility somewhere, and will sue corporations and communities for 
 damages. To-day the city must pay damages for a defective 
 sidewalk which breaks a man's leg, but the city may inocculate a 
 third of its population with typhoid-fever through a water supply 
 which is contaminated through public neglect, and no claim for 
 damages will be made. Alcohol is an instinctive remedy for sick- 
 ness. It has no equal among drugs as a heart stimulant. People 
 will have it. It is an antidote more or less to the air, water or germ 
 poison. Alcohol will not need to be prohibited after the germ 
 poisons are destroyed. When this time comes the people will stop 
 drinking alcohol. It will go out of fashion soon enough and will 
 be no longer sold in gilded saloons or found on polished side- 
 boards. The millineum will not reach this world until humanity 
 is emancipated from poisons. It makes no difference whether 
 the poison is that of a disease, microbe, or if it is a drug which 
 people consider a use as a remedy. We want no poisons of any 
 kind in the world. If the disease poisons are banished, the anti- 
 dotes which are equally poisonous will fall of themselves. I 
 believe in prevention rather than cure, if prevention can head off 
 the cure. But great reforms come slowly. The public considers 
 alcohol a remedy. 
 
 The public will have the remedy. When typhoid, consumption, 
 malaria and kindred diseases are banished from the world, the 
 average duration of human life will be longer than now by at least 
 twenty years, and preventable diseases including inebriety, will 
 not then be known. Therefore, banish all poisons that bring about 
 preventable disease and alcohol will die out of itself. The question 
 will be solved. Keeley Current Literature, June 1892. 
 
 "How Long Does It Take?" 
 
 BY DOCTOR J. J. MOONEY. 
 
 " The time necessary to accomplish a complete and thorough 
 cure of the alcoholic disease is usually from three to four weeks. 
 
2 4 
 
 In very rare instances the patient remains under treatment a fifth 
 week. 
 
 The question is frequently asked, " If Richard Roe can be cured 
 in three weeks, why can you not cure John Doe in the same length 
 of time? He (J. D.) did not drink nearly so long or so heavily 
 as Mr. Roe." 
 
 The above question is one of very great importance to those 
 now undergoing treatment as well as to prospective patients, for 
 it involves a consideration of something more than the time and 
 money spent by those who are advised to remain the additional 
 week, viz., that of a complete cure. 
 
 Now we all know that the physiological action of a drug will 
 not be made manifest in two individuals in precisely the same 
 length of time. In fact, a very great difference will be noticed in 
 some cases. 
 
 To explain this apparent irregular action of any particular drug 
 we must take into consideration various things, such as age, tem- 
 perament, condition of health, habit, idiosyncrasy, etc., etc. All 
 these have an influence on the action of a drug, both as regards 
 the time necessary for the production of the physiological effects 
 and the intensity and duration of the same. For instance, we 
 have seen patients in whom a small dose of chloral hydrate would 
 produce profound sleep in a comparatively short length of time. 
 Whilst others have required very large doses of the same drug in 
 order to procure any rest whatever, although there was no appar- 
 ent cause by which the difference required in dosage could be ex- 
 plained. Again, we may see cases of ordinary " sore throat " ex- 
 isting under precisely the same circumstances in two individuals. 
 To both patients the same medicine is administered, and what is 
 the result? One responds readily to the beneficial action of the 
 drug, and is well in a very short time, whereas, the other may re- 
 quire days to complete the cure, so slow has been his system in 
 responding. 
 
 Now, all these things were applicable to the Keeley treatment, 
 as well as to other forms of medicine, and, as a consequence, the 
 time required to produce the desired effect varies in different indi- 
 viduals. In almost every case, if not in all of them, the beneficial 
 action of the treatment is observed within the first twenty-four 
 hours. Some even so early as after having but one treatment 
 feel and show a decided improvement, whilst in others no improve- 
 ment is, evident until after from twelve to twenty-four hours. The 
 change after the first day is noticeable not only to the physician 
 and patient, but everybody remarks it. About the third or fourth 
 day the patient voluntarily abandons the use of liquor, after which 
 time the progress toward a cure becomes even more marked, and 
 
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 it depends in a great measure upon the rapidity with which his 
 system responds, whether or no his cure will be accomplished 
 within the three weeks. He appears four times daily at the insti- 
 tute for hypodermic injection. The physician, who is always in- 
 structed at the parent house, and must necessarily understand 
 thoroughly the action of the Double Chloride of Gold Remedies, 
 notes carefully how the patient is progressing. He looks for cer- 
 tain effects, for the Keeley remedies produce positive results, and 
 questions with regard to subjective symptoms. At the end of 
 three weeks, provided he has received the full benefit of the cure, 
 he is graduated. As in the case of " sore throat," mentioned 
 above, he may not, however, have responded readily enough, so he 
 is advised to take another week's treatment. There are other rea- 
 sons why some should take a longer course of treatment than 
 others. One is that during the fourth week a special tonic treat- 
 ment is given with special reference to the nervous system. Some 
 men who have a delicate and sensitive nervous organization be- 
 come, from the long continued use of alcohol, broken down com- 
 pletely, and border on a condition of neurasthenia (nervous pros- 
 tration) when they commence taking treatment for alcoholism. 
 Now, though they be completely cured of the alcoholic disease 
 proper, at the completion of three weeks' treatment, the nervous 
 system may still be in such a condition that a week of special 
 tonic treatment becomes necessary. 
 
 There is one class, however, who should never think of taking 
 less than four weeks' treatment, for their condition requires it. 
 We refer to the periodical drunkard or dipsomaniacs. There ex- 
 ists a vast difference between a habitual and a periodical drunk- 
 ard. " It should be mentioned that periodical drunkenness is 
 more difficult to cure than habitual, and therefore great care and 
 caution is necessary," says Dr. Leslie E. Keeley in his "Treatise 
 on Drunkenness." Surely such words coming from the lips of 
 the great discoverer himself should be sufficient to convince any 
 periodical drunkard that a four weeks' course of treatment is none 
 too long to accomplish in his case a complete cure. 
 
 When entering an institute do so with your mind made up that 
 you will not only live up to the rules and regulations, but that you 
 will abide by whatever the physician tells you, for he must cer- 
 tainly be a better judge of your condition than you are. Submit 
 to his judgment as you would to your family physician in case of 
 sickness. Do not leave his protecting wing until he pronounces 
 you absolutely cured, and you will live to bless the day that you 
 entered his class at the Keeley Institute." Golden News, Octo- 
 ber 10, 1892. 
 
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 In some way the impression has gone abroad that when a per- 
 son goes through the treatment the constitution is enfeebled and 
 the seeds of death begin at once to grow. This is an idea which 
 was started and is kept alive only by jealous physicians, and is 
 wholly false. 
 
 Our readers need have no fear of any bad result. Now and 
 then a man dies who has been treated, but upon inquiry it will al- 
 ways be found that he was already far advanced in some disease 
 that could not be cured, and that was certain to produce death ere 
 long. 
 
 As a fact, figures show that when patients come from the treat- 
 ment they are stronger and better in every way than before." 
 Dr. /. E. Mooney. 
 
 The idea that the Keeley Cure involves peril to life, is entirely 
 erroneous, but is fostered, not only by jealous members of the 
 medical profession, but also by certain sections of the press an- 
 tagonistic to the Keeley Cure. It is calculated by competent 
 men that, upon a moderate estimate, thirty million dollars annually 
 are now withdrawn from the liquor dealers by the men who have 
 been cured at the various Keeley Institutes; what wonder, then, 
 that papers devoted to the liquor trade should indulge in un- 
 limited, malicious misrepresentation as to the perils to life involved 
 in the cures. The great pecuniary inducement to a steady per- 
 sistence in this kind of romancing, which is designed to deceive 
 the unwary public is very forcibly presented by Monte Bennett 
 in his long and very able article on The Keeley Cure, published 
 in the Superior Daily Call, West Superior, April 9, 1892. 
 
 We subjoin the following extract : 
 
 WHERE MANY ATTACKS COME FROM. 
 
 "Aside from the enemies in his own profession Dr. Keeley 's 
 greatest foes are the liquor dealers. But in this instance the more 
 antagonistic they are the more he will prosper. It would not be 
 surprising to see a combine of liquor dealers who would put up 
 money to malign and break down his business and close up his 
 institute if that were possible. It is estimated in the bi-chloride 
 of gold club at Dwight, that not a patient who has taken the 
 Keeley treatment expended or squandered less than $300 yearly 
 in saloons, and in scores of cases from that sum up to $3,000 to 
 $5,000. To take this away from them is a vast drain upon the 
 financial support of the saloons. No wonder there were efforts 
 made to cripple the treatment by legislative interference in New 
 York, but this move was more than discounted by the adoption 
 
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 of the treatment by the government for the soldiers' homes, 
 national and State. 
 
 Two hundred thousand men have now been cured of the drink 
 disease and turned away from courses of waste and profligacy, 
 and others are being reclaimed at the rate of 30,000 a year, and 
 next year the number throughout Christendom will exceed 50,000, 
 and possibly reach 100,000. Think of this vast army restored to 
 sobriety, usefulness and good citizenship ! The men will belong 
 to The Associated Keeley Bi-Chloride of Gold Clubs, which, to 
 say the least, will have nothing in common with the saloons or 
 the liquor traffic. It is the only successful and practical tem- 
 perance reform the world has ever seen. Those already reclaimed 
 at the low estimate of an expenditure of $300 each per year, 
 represent the sum of $60,000,000 taken from the saloons, but 
 twice or three times this sum would be nearer the true figure. A 
 fairer average would be $600 a year for most of the patients of 
 the class that visit Dwight or the branch institutes, and thus the 
 vast total of $120,000,000 a year is reached, with another $50,000,- 
 OOO to be added by those cured and reclaimed next year, and so 
 on almost ad libitum, and the whole vast sum restored to chan- 
 nels of legitimate business, of home and property getting, of 
 schooling, refinement and culture, while the physical and moral 
 benefits to the human race arising from the Keeley discovery is 
 inestimable. 
 
 The " whisky trust " is strong, but trust and faith in the Keeley 
 Cure is greater and a much better investment. King Alcohol is 
 mighty, but the gold antidote is mightier. Its influences now 
 girdle the earth. It is the great reform of the nineteenth century 
 the new deliverance. It is of greater consequence than a war, 
 because it establishes a great principle by reclaiming instead of 
 slaughtering its adherents and volunteers, and it is of far more 
 importance than even our national election, because it is more 
 general and lasting in its results to mankind. 
 
 The press of the Pacific Coast as well as of the Eastern States, 
 has generally been characterized by the most fair and honorable 
 treatment of the Keeley Cure, and has given it the most unquali- 
 fied and unstinted endorsement. There are a few exceptions of 
 the baser sort. 
 
 On Sunday evening, May 15, 1892, Dr. Leslie E. Keeley ac- 
 cepted the invitation of Dr. Talmage to address his vast audience 
 of 12,000 people at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Dr. Keeley being 
 at that time en route to Europe. 
 
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 " Prior to the address Dr. Talmage had announced that at its 
 close he desired to ask certain questions of Dr. L. E. Keeley to 
 clear up some doubts in the public mind, questions which had 
 been suggested by prominent physicians and citizens. At the 
 conclusion of the address he said : 
 
 " Doctor, are there any poisons in this cure any atropine or 
 strychnine?" 
 
 Dr. Keeley There is nothing deleterious in the cure. There 
 is nothing inimical to life or to health. I think it a physical im- 
 possibility for the cure to do harm in any way . A child might 
 drink a barrel of it under proper restrictions, and every spoonful 
 would do the child good instead of harm. 
 
 I know of nothing in the remedies that will injure in any way, 
 and I do not think that anyone has ever been the least disturbed 
 by taking the remedies, either mentally or physically." 
 
 NO ATROPHINE OR STRYCHNINE. 
 
 "The reply to Dr. Talmage 's first question, whether the Keeley 
 medicine contained either atropine or strychnine, was not 'direct 
 enough to suit some of the editors of the New York daily papers, 
 who accused the doctor, the day following, of evading a direct 
 reply. He noticed the comments, and when he arrived at White 
 Plains, N. Y., where he addressed the men under treatment at 
 the branch institute there, he took occasion, once for all, to make 
 a positive denial. He said there: U A lie has gone forth for the 
 purpose of breaking down my remedies and their use to the effect 
 that they contain atropine and strychnine, which are both inimi- 
 cal to mental and physical health. Now, I declare more emphati- 
 cally that there is neither atropine nor strychnine in my remedies, 
 and, further, I will say that if three reputable chemists, whose 
 honesty cannot be questioned, will meet and analyze my remedies 
 for either of these poisons and find them, making their affidavits 
 to that effect, I will make my formula known to the world." 
 "Keeley Current Literature" No. 2, June, 1892. 
 
 So much has been said concerning the sad death of James G. 
 Fair, Jr., it having been claimed that he was killed by the Keeley 
 treatment, the following unequivocal and straightforward letter 
 from ex-Senator Fair will be reao! with interest: 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO, CAI,., July 25th, 1893. 
 
 Or. G. E. SussJorff, President of the Ke- ley Institute^ Carson City> Nevada. 
 DEAR SIR: Replying to your letter of yesterday, I beg to say that after the 
 death of my son, James G. Fair, three prominent physicians of this city, at 
 my request, held an autopsy on his body. The result of that autopsy was to 
 show the young man died of fatty degeneration of the heart, and that Dr. 
 Keeley 's treatment of his case was in no way responsible for his death. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 JAMES G. FAIR. 
 
2 9 
 
 An Interview With Ex-Senator Fair; 
 
 In an interview with ex-Senator Fair, that gentleman expressed 
 his unqualified approval of the system pursued at the Keeley 
 Institute, and warmly indorsed it as a tremendous power for good. 
 Referring to the death of his son James, the ex-Senator said: 
 
 " I fail to understand what motive could have prompted the 
 falsehood which made it appear that my son's death was caused 
 by the Keeley treatment. So far as concerns this treatment, it 
 was successful tn curing my son of the liquor habit, and for 
 several weeks after he left the institute he was in robust health. 
 We knew that he had a heart trouble, and had feared serious 
 consequences from that. But the Keeley treatment did not in 
 any degree aggravate that trouble, and it was not in any manner 
 responsible for his death, which was caused by fatty degeneration 
 of the heart, as was demonstrated at the autopsy, and nothing 
 else. My son Charles was also cured at the D wight Institute. 
 With him the liquor habit is certainly eradicated, and he is now 
 a man, with every sense and faculty perfect. Nor has he shown 
 since his cure, any unpleasant effects from the treatment, which 
 has saved and restored him to me." 
 
 "Then I may say," questioned the reporter, u that you approve 
 the Keeley treatment and recommend it ? " 
 
 " You may," said Mr. Fair, " and you may also say that I fully 
 indorse it, and believe it to be one of the grandest discoveries of 
 our century. I believe it to be infallible in the cure of the 
 alcohol habit. Several other cases than those I have referred to 
 have come under my notice, and in no instance has a failure 
 attended this excellent system of treatment. San Francisco 
 Daily Report, July 30, 1892. 
 
 Many Quacks Are on the Rostrum. 
 
 It must not be forgotten that there are a great number of pre~ 
 tenders who claim to give the Keeley treatment. Among the 
 questions asked at the Brooklyn Tabernacle was the following: 
 
 Dr. Talmage "How many initiative institutions are there that 
 
 you know of?" 
 
 Dr. Keeley " I believe there are now some two hundred am 
 
 seventy-seven. Of those two hundred and seventy-seven there 
 is not a solitary one which has originated a single thought. They 
 all imitate my methods. They all use my literature when they 
 want to write up their establishments, and then use even my 
 language." Keeley Current Literature, June. 
 
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 We are afraid to attempt to say how many there are on the 
 Pacific Coast, but they are springing up as thick as mushrooms, 
 and of course it is quite convenient to have their failures charged 
 home to a Keeley institute. This is the experience east of the 
 Rocky mountains, and it will most probably be found to be true 
 here also. 
 
 Keeley Medicine Harmless. 
 
 From the Standard , Wellington, Kansas. 
 
 " It is usual to allude to all cures for the liquor habit as the 
 " Keeley " cure. It is also customary when a person dies under 
 treatment to say that he died while undergoing the Keeley cure. 
 Now, there are a number of companies who advertise and try to 
 cure drunkenness. The Keeley Company claims that no one 
 has died while taking the Keeley cure in any one of their 
 numerous institutes." 
 
 The philosophic view is admirably presented by Dr. G. E. 
 Sussdorff in his lecture already quoted : 
 
 "Another point should be noticed. Every death that occurs 
 of a Keeley graduate is attributed to his treatment for drunk- 
 enness or the opium habit. The Keeley Institute cannot insure 
 a man so that he can never die. A certain percentage of men die 
 every year. I think in the case of men who drink it is larger than 
 in any other class. Out of every thousand at least thirty die 
 every year. The Keeley graduate goes home in better general 
 health than he has enjoyed for many years, but a certain percentage 
 of these die every year, of course, and are not exempt from paying 
 the last debt to nature. Many other assertions prejudicial to this 
 treatment have been made, one, for instance, that the treatment 
 is administered alike to all, without first making an examination 
 as to the presence of organic disease or other conditions contra- 
 dicting the treatment. This last assertion, I am sure, you all 
 know to be unjust and untrue. 
 
 Perhaps the only way and the best way is to attribute to the 
 liquor disease those attacks upon the Bi-Chloride of Gold treatment. 
 The influence of alcoholism is felt in every avenue of social life. 
 Men cannot think and reason fully when their mentality evolves 
 distorted conceptions of most things, especially when the appetite 
 for intoxicating fluids is discussed. They resent in every way the 
 idea that they are not able to control it, and the suggestion of the 
 Keeley cure is felt to be an indignity. So, through ignorance or 
 
self-interest they use every frivolous pretext to discourage and 
 frighten men from undergoing a cure for drunkenness. 
 
 All this will right itself as the great work goes on. It will soon 
 silence all enemies." 
 
 The respectable portion of the Eastern press is almost unani- 
 mous on this question. Such testimonies as the following might 
 be published by the score : 
 
 BUT ONE RESULT FROM TAKING TREATMENT. 
 
 "There is circulated all over the country some mendacious 
 reports in regard to fatal results that follow the Keeley cure that 
 we desire to ventilate briefly for the benefit of the public. We 
 hear wherever we go that a man having taken the cure who starts 
 to drink again will most certainly die directly from the effects of 
 the cure on the whisky. Now we have it from the highest authority 
 that this is untrue, and is circulated by those who are using every 
 means to prevent men from getting out of the ditch. It is also 
 said that it will drive men insane. This, too, is false, and we say 
 and can prove that there has never been one harmful symptom 
 resulting from the cure in any one of the 200,000 who have taken 
 it. It is perfectly harmless to the system and on the contrary it 
 is beneficial, and builds up in almost every direction. Its enemies 
 are in effect keeping men rushing to the shambles, and God will 
 hold them accountable for the blood of their brothers. Men of 
 intelligence, in the face of facts and results, cannot condemn the 
 Keeley cure without assuming a fearful responsibility. Men of 
 intelligence, who want to throw off their awful burden, and can 
 go to Dwight, are committing deliberate suicide by staying away, 
 There can be but one result from a man taking this treatment, 
 and that is a cure. It is as sure as any acknowledged medical 
 fact of the day. Its enemies are fast disappearing, or are com- 
 pelled by facts to keep silence." Editorial in New Brighton, 
 III., News. 
 
 Testimonies of Eminent Divines. 
 
 Dr. Talmage visited Dwight in April and gave one of his elo- 
 quent addresses to the students, who at that time numbered from 
 10,000 to 12,000. 
 
 ADDRESSING THE PATIENTS. 
 
 "Treatment Hall" was crowded at 5 o'clock, when Dr. Keeley 
 called the assemblage to order and said : 
 
 GENTLEMEN : We have to-day with us for a limited while Dr. 
 Talmage, of whom you all know. It would be idle to introduce 
 
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 him, or to say anything about him. The world knows Dr. 
 Talmage. He to-day is one of the very few men of the world 
 who can arrest attention. Even his lightest word is heard in 
 forty-eight hours after speaking it, the world over. I need say 
 no more. [Applause]. 
 
 In the course of his address Dr. Talmage gave the following 
 valuable testimony : 
 
 REDEEMED BY THE KEELEY CURE. 
 
 "I have now in my mind a young man who had broken his 
 father's heart, his mother's heart as splendid a young fellow as 
 there is in this land to-day; fine cerebral development, fine educa- 
 tion. As lovely a mother as has any man in all the earth. He 
 was bolstered up and he fell, and put in inebriate asylums and he 
 fell, and everything tried with him possible. He became a con- 
 verted man and joined the church. Don't let anyone scoff and 
 say he was not a Christian. He was as much a Christian as any 
 one in this house, but this awful habit drew him down and down, 
 and there seemed to be no cure; and after a while I said: "Where 
 is So and So?" and they said: "He is trying the Keeley cure," 
 and to make a long story short, he is redeemed and as fine a man 
 in business as there is in New York. The Keeley cure saved him , 
 and nothing else under Heaven would. So I extol the grace of 
 God and at the same time extol the common-sensical, scientific, 
 earnest aid, experiment, effort, discovery! But tliere is no resisting 
 it we cannot read it down, we cannot talk it down it will become 
 triumphant and be recognized in all the land, and all the lands of 
 earth. It has on it the mark of the approval of the Lord, God 
 Almighty. That is my opinion, and I wish you all to be of good 
 cheer. 
 
 "Courage, brother, do not stumble, 
 Though thy path be dark as night, 
 There's a star to guide the humble, 
 Trust in God and .do the right. 
 
 [Applause]. 
 Some will love thee, 
 
 Some will hate thee, 
 Some will flatter, 
 
 Some will slight, 
 
 Cease from man and look above thee, 
 Trust in God and do the right. ' ' 
 
 Banner of Gold, April 30, 1892. 
 
 Dr. Talmage has stated that before he visited Dwight, 111., he 
 had made a careful investigation of the Keeley system, and was 
 thoroughly satisfied. Six months later, after abundant evidence 
 of the efficiency of the Keeley cure, Dr. Talmage writes in The 
 Golden News, October 24th : 
 
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 THE WORK HAS ONLY BEGUN. 
 
 "Gentlemen, I am mightly impressed with this whole Keeley 
 cure. I believe it has just begun its work in comparison with that 
 which will follow which it will yet achieve, and there will not be 
 a neighborhood in the United States, or in the world that will not 
 be finally blessed with it." DR. TALMAGE. 
 
 We might print many pages from the speeches and writings of 
 the eloquent doctor, but no additions could make his testimony 
 more unique and perfect. When Dr. Keeley gave a lecture on the 
 Keeley cure, December, 1891, at the invitation of the Press Asso- 
 ciation of Chicago, among the many eminent guests were: The 
 Rev. Frank M. Bristol and the Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas. They 
 are briefly reported as follows (Chicago Tribune, December 19, 
 1891): 
 
 INTERESTS BOTH RICH AND POOR. 
 The Rev. Frank M. Bristol Discusses the Benefits of the Cure. 
 
 The Rev. Frank M. Bristol was the next visitor. He said : 
 " There is not a cottage so humble in all this land that is not 
 interested, vitally interested, in the subject that brings us together 
 this evening. To-morrow eyes accustomed to tears will read the 
 daily papers to find in the utterances of this man of science some 
 degree of hope. Abraham Lincoln once said, "All rational men 
 are agreed that intemperance is the greatest evil that inflicts 
 humanity." Upon that we are all agreed, and a remedy for it is 
 the only question. I have stated before that an ounce of cure is 
 worth a pound of prevention at a certain stage. We want some- 
 thing practical. We want a cure. I believe in theories, but they 
 are like eggs good things if they hatch before spoiling. There 
 are many temperance theories spoiling from age. Our con- 
 sciences have been trying to hatch something from nothing. It 
 is to be expected this discovery should be met with opposition. 
 A sermon was preached against it, and I venture that minister, 
 were he alive to-night, would regret his utterance. Some of the 
 preachers of Chicago will yet live to take back some of the 
 sermons they have been preaching against the Keeley cure." 
 
 Getting Down to Practical Sense. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas Thinks the World Is Improving. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas followed Dr. Bristol. He said: 
 " When Brother Bristol and I were young we used to hear a 
 great deal about the world being lost. Now we are getting down 
 to practical sense in talking about the world being sick, being 
 
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 diseased, and seeking out a remedy, the best cure, and we are on 
 much nearer and more practical grounds. 
 
 Man is built upon the principle of an engine. He must stop 
 at stations for food and drink, and then moves on to the next 
 station, where he must again eat and drink. Life is sustained by 
 some forms of eating. I suppose the medical men present will 
 agree with me that life is brought into existence by stimulation 
 and is sustained by food. It is a law of nature. But man with 
 chemistry in his hands has changed nature has changed the 
 world. Man has taken it to pieces and recombined it. Man 
 has gone through all the different kinds of fruit and grain and by 
 chemistry has produced alcohol. This is the bottom of the tem- 
 perance question. This is an age in which we have produced 
 amazing forces. Nature has gone further in some forms of stimu- 
 lation. There is the tea plant, the coffee berry, and the weed of 
 tobacco. All these, are in some sense, termed stimulants, and it 
 is a singular fact that most people like them. Why? I suppose 
 it is because in some way they quicken the action of the system ; 
 that they in some way assist the great reserve powers to go long 
 distances and carry greater loads. It lifts them up into physical 
 ecstacy and the next day take a little more. This is the rising 
 and falling of the tide which finally breaks every vow and every 
 resolution and sweeps on to the sea. They are not strong swim- 
 mers and the perilous waves ultimately engulf them. 
 
 Dr. Keeley, proposes to fight chemistry by chemistry he pro- 
 poses to antidote one poison with another. It looks as if he had 
 accomplished it and if so, let us say, "Praise the Lord, "and when 
 we say this we do not mean to undervalue the other remedies. 
 
 It is better never to drink, but if we become drunkards let us 
 bring in our chemistry, the chemistry of this cure. That is all the 
 argument there ever was for all the good there may be in religion. 
 Let me say to you in this age of chemistry we have called upon 
 the physical forces of heaven and earth, electricity, dynamite, and 
 gunpowder, and we must handle them safely. It is more difficult 
 to live. now than a hundred years ago because we have brought 
 these greater forces to bear upon our daily life. Dr. Keeley has 
 been studying, praying for years; has been working for something 
 to cure this terrible disease of intemperance. The medical profes- 
 sion is a progressive profession and instead of antagonizing him, 
 while they would like to know the remedy, they are pleased at the 
 discovery of the cause." 
 
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 It Has Proven Itself. 
 
 The fact that Dr. Keeley can remove the appetite for strong 
 drink at once and forever from the drunkard is to-day attested by 
 tens of thousands of men and women. It is no longer a theory 
 nor to be questioned. It has proven itself. 
 
 REV. P. E. HOLP. 
 
 A Welcome Endorsement. 
 
 Andrew Wilson, F. B. S. E., Etc., the Editor of "Health," Invites 
 Dr. Edmund's Opinion. 
 
 From the issue of Health (London), for 23rd September Dr. Keeley's admirers will be 
 gratified to read the following comments by the editor in introducing a letter 
 from Dr. Edmunds upon the cure of inebriety by Dr. Keeley's methods and 
 medicines. 
 
 "I have taken up the dual position that Dr. Keeley, of "In- 
 ebriety Cure " fame, has a perfect right to use his knowledge for 
 his own personal profit, and that on account of the secrecy he 
 thinks it right to maintain in the matter of his remedies, he can- 
 not expect medical men to accord him their support. Medical 
 use and wont are entirely against the employment of " secret " 
 remedies ; hence it is useless for Dr. Keeley to invite medical co- 
 operation so long as he refuses to make known the exact rationale 
 of his treatment. This much is admitted on both sides, I believe, 
 Dr . Keeley is within his rights in keeping to himself the details 
 of his method, and medical men are within theirs in refusing re- 
 cognition to his views and opinions. 
 
 This is the " professional " view of things. The scientific view 
 (to which personally I cling) is, that for the satisfactory investiga- 
 tion of any results we must have a knowledge of data and causes. 
 It is with Dr. Keeley's cure for inebriety as with, say, astronomy, 
 physics or biology at large. I may see certain results and recog- 
 nize them as true and valid ; but, scientifically I want to know 
 how these results are produced. I cannot be said to know enough 
 to warrant fair and just conclusions on my part until I know the 
 means which are used to produce the results in question. This 
 also is fair reasoning, I think, to which Dr. Keeley, as a trained 
 medical man will not object." 
 
 Dr. James Edmunds, one of the founders of the London Tem- 
 perance Hospital, however, has publicly queried the application of 
 the rules set by the Royal College of Physicians, and has so far 
 been true to his faith in Dr. Keeley's cures (as witnessed by him- 
 
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 self), that he has placed the fact on record of his belief in the effi- 
 cacy of this method of curing inebriety. I have lately had the 
 pleasure of a long interview with Dr. Edmunds, and have shown 
 the rocords of cases (professionally investigated by and known to 
 him), in which the alcohol habit has apparently been cured by 
 the Keeley system, as now practiced in London. Dr. Edmunds 
 knows more than I do, of course, about Dr. Keeley 's cure (in fact, 
 I know nothing at all regarding the composition of the remedies), 
 but I think I am within the mark in saying that Dr. Edmunds 
 himself would not venture to say he is acquainted with the nature 
 of the drugs used in the course of the cure. Be that as it may, 
 Dr-. Edmunds is content to assert that he has seen results in the 
 cure of alcoholism and of the morphine habit, such as have hitherto 
 been effected by no other system ; and although, as I have said, 
 this is (scientifically) an unsatisfactory declaration, Dr. Edmunds 
 pins his faith firmly by the results he has witnessed. 
 
 1 have asked Dr. Edmunds to give some account of what he 
 knows regarding the Keeley cure, and he has kindly consented to 
 do so. He has supplied me with the following details, which, if 
 only on the principle of keeping my readers abreast of the 
 latest doings of medicine, will be perused with interest. For my 
 my own part, I await with something of scientific impatience a 
 knowledge of the exact means used in the Keeley system. I may 
 never succeed in getting this information, it is true, but what Dr. 
 Edmunds has to say should impress his fellow physicians deeply, 
 as the record of an honest and fair-minded man, who has set aside 
 professional custom in so far as it would cause him to refuse to in- 
 vestigate any cure the rationale of which may be unknown. It 
 might cause somewhat of a reform in medical matters did some of 
 Dr. Edmunds' colleagues follow his example. The following is 
 Dr. Edmunds' letter: 
 
 "I. I have been asked by Dr. Andrew Wilson to say a few 
 words on the Keeley Treatment of Inebriety, and I cheerfull re- 
 spond to his invitation. 
 
 " My excuse for venturing to speak on this subject is that I 
 have been an active medical worker in temperance for thirty 
 years ; that for eighteen and a half years I have worked as senior 
 physician at the London Temperance Hospital, and that I have 
 more cases of inebriety referred to me professionally than any 
 other physician in London. 
 
 " 3. On this subject I have never written until I wrote in The 
 Lancet of July 30, (page 285), and then I wrote because I felt 
 that a rude and untruthful attack had been made upon an Amer- 
 can physician. The reason why, with all this experience, I have 
 never written anything on this terrible subject is simply that I 
 

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 had nothing to say except to repeat that " the cure of drunken- 
 ness is to leave off drinking." The real question is, how to make 
 an inebriate leave off drinking? This we have hitherto failed to 
 accomplish, when once the drink-crave is firmly established. These 
 cases so sickened me that I was tired of advising about them ; 
 and the only thing the inebriate asylum doctors have done is to 
 persistently clamor for greater and readier powers, to incarcerate 
 their inebriate patients. 
 
 " 4. Of late it has been forced upon my attention that inebri- 
 ates from all parts of the world were making pilgrimages to 
 D wight, Illinois, U. S. A., and that morphia users and alcohol 
 drinkers, with whom no method had ever been useful, were com- 
 ing back cured. It became my duty to my patients to investi- 
 gate the facts which came before me, and those investigations con- 
 vinced me that there was really 'something' in the Keeley 
 treatment. I can produce in London now such cases for profes- 
 sional inspection, and I have advised inebriate patients to go to 
 the Keely Institute, which is now available in London at 5 Port- 
 land Place. I cannot, of course, give names, unless by explicit 
 permission on the part of patients, but I am allowed by Lord 
 Graves to give his experience. Lord Graves, in April last, was 
 taking by hypodermic injection, twenty-five grains of morphia 
 every day a quantity which would kill any ten ordinary people. 
 He could not live without this perpetual drugging, and with it his 
 life was a burden to him. He had been a slave to the morphia 
 habit for many years, and no treatment had ever helped him to 
 shake it off. He went to Dwight, and in thirty-five days (being a 
 very bad case) he was cured of the morphia habit. From the 
 commencement of the Keeley treatment he never took more than 
 twelve and a half grains in all of morphia. On returning to 
 London he came to see me, and he has been well ever since, and 
 is now a new man. Last evening (September i8th), I saw him 
 again, and had a long conversation with him. He still tells me 
 that he has entirely lost his morphia crave. Lord Graves allows 
 me to say that he will be glad to see anyone upon this subject, if 
 they will call upon him or write to him, at 34 Duke street, St. 
 James. 
 
 "5. Other cases, equally remarkable, of the cure, both of 
 inebriety and of the morphia-crave, are within my personal 
 knowledge. Btnoroft Library . 
 
 "6. Dr. Keeley, instead of locking up these unfortunate inebri- 
 ates for long periods, 'cures the drink crave' by remedies which 
 act as arsenic or quinine acts in curing an ague. This is a new 
 line of thought. It is one which has helped me immensely in my 
 own work on these cases ; while careful watching and study of Dr. 
 
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 Keeley's results have convinced me that Dr. Keeley knows more 
 about handling morphia men and alcohol drinkers than all the rest 
 of the profession put together. 
 
 "/. There is now to be seen at Dwight, the most wonderful 
 clinic in the world. Twelve hundred inebriates, on an average, 
 are congregating at that agricultural village to march through the 
 hall of the Keeley Institute four times a day, for the inoculations 
 which are administered by Dr. Keeley's assistant physicians. 
 These patients stay from three to four, or, sometimes, as with 
 Lord Graves, five weeks. Four times a day these patients form 
 into four lines first week men, second week men, third week 
 men, fourth week men and march past the four inoculating 
 physicians at the rate of six a minute. Among these men are 
 physicians, lawyers, clergymen, journalists, and men generally who 
 do the brain wOrk of the world. The great bulk of these men, 
 like Lord Graves go home cured, and send all their inebriate 
 friends off to Dwight. 
 
 These facts are not even disputed by anyone who is worth 
 listening to, and there is no need for me to cite evidence in their 
 proof. Some 120,000 such inebriates, including 2,000 inebriate 
 physicians, have journeyed to the Keeley Institutes in America, 
 and have submitted themselves to this treatment. Great news- 
 papers, like the Chicago Tribune, knowing of the work done in 
 its own district, vouch in strenuous leaders for the good which is 
 being done by this treatment." " JAMES EDMUNDS, 
 
 M. D., M. R., C. P. Lond." 
 
 Neal Dow and Dr. Keeley. N 
 
 An Interview About the Cure With the Famous Old Maine Prohibitionist. 
 
 "I called upon Gen. Neal Dow at his residence, in Portland, 
 Maine, on Tuesday morning last, bearing a letter of introduction 
 from his daughter, Mrs. Emma Dow Gould. The General was 
 seated in his library reading the newspaper as I was ushered in. 
 There was something more than the ordinary welcome accorded 
 to an ordinary reporter in the manner in which this hero of Pro- 
 hibition battles, and ex-Governor of the State of Maine, arose 
 and took me warmly by the hand. His handsome face glowed 
 with genuine pleasure as he read his daughter's letter telling him 
 that I wanted to talk with him about Dr. Keeley and the great 
 Keeley cure. 
 
 A GRAND OLD MAN. 
 
 It was almost impossible to imagine that that happy, genial 
 face represented eighty -eight years. The General, however, 
 
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 assured me that such was the fact. Even when he looked very 
 serious, which was the case when speaking of the evils of the 
 liquor traffic, he appeared twenty years younger than he really is. 
 Surely God blesses this grand old man. 
 
 BELIEVES IN KEELEY. 
 
 " Do you believe in the Keeley treatment for inebriety, 
 General?" I asked. 
 
 " Most assuredly I do. I have seen instances which have 
 thoroughly convinced me of its efficaciousness." (Here he pro- 
 ceeded to relate the condition of several men who were well 
 known, not alone to him, but who were prominent characters, 
 and prominent drunkards, too, in Portland and other places, but 
 who had been surely saved from a miserable existence by the 
 Keeley cure). 
 
 HE TALKS OF THE KEELEY CURE. 
 
 " Have you ever mentioned the Keeley cure in your public 
 addresses? " 
 
 " Yes, indeed, I have. I have felt impelled by what I have 
 seen to speak in favor of Dr. Keeley and his remedies whenever 
 I had the opportunity, either in public or private. I am not at 
 all influenced against the treatment by reading of the antagonism 
 of some medical men. Medical men are banded together to 
 support each other. They establish certain rules for their pro- 
 fessional behavior, and call it a " Code of Ethics," but, in reality, 
 it is a sort of " Trades Union," the practical object being to keep 
 up prices and keep out innovations which may in any way effect 
 their pockets or prestige. This same medical fraternity, in days 
 gone by, discarded the theories of Jenner and other great dis- 
 coverers. Dr. Keeley is passing through a similar experience. 
 He is sure to triumph, however, in the end. Truth is on his 
 side. The clouds of ignorance, doubt, envy, hatred and malice 
 will soon be dispelled by the touch of science." 
 
 The interview with the distinguished leader of the Prohibition 
 Party is reported in full in Keeley 's Current Literature, October, 
 1892. Copies may be had upon application to the Keeley Inst 
 tute, Carson City, Nev. 
 
 Casting Out the Devil. 
 
 John V. Farwell Explains in What the World is Indebted to Dr. K.eley. 
 
 John V. Farwell, the great Chicago dry goods merchant was an 
 interested spectator at the convention of the Keeley Leagu. 
 throughout, and is a man of broad ideas and believes in practical 
 
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 things. We make the following brief extracts from his eminently 
 practical speech . 
 
 " It must be very interesting to you to look into each other's 
 face, and have these recollections and realize that to-night you are 
 not slaves, but free men ; free by the grace of God through His 
 providence in giving you Dr. Keeley and his wonderful cure. 
 (Great applause.) 
 
 " I remember several years ago seeing in the newspapers some- 
 thing about the Keeley Cure, in favor and against, and as I re- 
 member how 'chincona' was introduced to the public through 
 the newspapers a few years previously, I said to myself, * Oh, 
 well, this is another humbug a fellow blowing his own horn for 
 profit and pay.' Soon after this I went to London and met Dr. 
 Keeley for the first time, and I found that the newspapers there 
 and the Knights of Medicine were opposed to Dr. Keeley. And 
 I said to myself, I guess if he is worthy of the notice of the med- 
 ical journals and of the great medical men of London, if they 
 oppose him, he is worthy of somebody's notice and I think I will 
 make some inquiries and see whether he is a humbugger or not. 
 And so my inquiries were instituted in London, and on returning 
 to Chicago, some years ago, because it is some years ago that this 
 occurred, I made some inquiry. But, as I said before, I was pre- 
 judiced against it, coming to me as it did through the newspapers. 
 
 " But I see in your faces to-night a different story. I have 
 found in all the inquiries I have made in London and here and 
 New York that all my impressions have been wiped out. (Ap- 
 plause.) 
 
 " Yes, friends and fellow citizens, another name has been added 
 to the list of public benefactors, and that name is Dr. Leslie E 
 Keeley. (Great applause.) In due time he will be cannonized 
 for having cast out the largest devil that ever afflicted Christen- 
 dom. (Applause and cheers.) I am glad the day has come when 
 men like Francis Murphy preached the doctrine of leaving out 
 hard names after a man had got the appetite fixed on him, and 
 treat him kindly, that it has come to be understood as a disease, 
 and there is no other name for the big devil." Current Keeley 
 Literature, October, 1892. 
 
Francis Murphy and Dr. Keeley. 
 
 "I Prayed For This Discovery," Said Francis Mnrphy. 
 
 The Keeley League Meets at Pittsburg Ras Wilson and Francis Murphy The Grand 
 Opera House Crowded A Grand Reception Would Advocate the Keeley Cure. 
 They Are Crying "Crucify" Him The Grace of God and Science of Keeley. 
 "Here Is a Keeley Man" One of the Brightest Omens A Word From John J. 
 Flinn The Grandest Temperance Oration From Ras Wilson Pledges of 
 Support A Keeley Day Hospitable Major Moore. 
 
 The meeting of the Executive Board of the Keeley League, in 
 Pittsburg, has been one of the greatest events in the history of the 
 movement. It so happened that Francis Murphy, who had been 
 absent from Pittsburg for two years, returned to that city last 
 week. It was in Pittsburg, sixteen years ago, that Francis Murphy 
 made his first appearance as a temperance lecturer. It was in 
 Pittsburg that he won his spurs as a great temperance evangelist. 
 He was discovered to be a sincere and able advocate of temper- 
 ance by Ras Wilson, of the Commercial Gazette, whose name is 
 dear to every Keeleyite on this continent. Ras Wilson reported 
 the first meeting presided over by Francis Murphy, and gave him 
 the first favorable report he had ever received from a newspaper. 
 Ras Wilson believed in him from the start, and stayed with him 
 from that time on. He saw the name and fame of Murphy grow 
 until the Murphy movement became a household word throughout 
 America and in many of the countries of Europe. Murphy, 
 through all the years that have followed, has grown upon the 
 people of Pittsburg until he has become, in the true sense, a 
 favorite son of that busy and prosperous center of industry. 
 Upon his return, after an absence of two years, the people of 
 Pittsburg decided to give him an ovation at the Grand Opera 
 House, one of the largest theaters in the country. The Murphy 
 meeting was announced for Sunday evening, October 16. The 
 meeting of the Executive Board of the Keeley League was 
 announced for Monday evening, October 17. One of the first 
 questions put to Mr. Murphy by Ras Wilson, after the former's 
 return to Pittsburg, was, "What do you think of Keeley?" 
 Murphy's reply was, "Keeley, God bless him; I am with him." 
 He then informed Mr. Wilson that he would put himself on record 
 at the Opera House meeting as a friend of the Keeley cause. 
 This information reached Mr. John M. Kelly, who immediately 
 sent telegrams to members of the Executive Committee, announcing 
 the fact that Murphy would say a word for Keeley on Sunday 
 evening, and asked them to be present. Mr. John J. Flinn, 
 Chairman of the Executive Committee, on receipt of the telegram 
 
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 immediately set out for Pittsburg. So did Captain Mattox, of 
 Cleveland. Both of these gentlemen arrived in time to attend the 
 meeting. Other members of the committee, with the exception 
 of Hon. Walter Young, of Missouri, arrived on Monday evening, 
 too late for the Murphy meeting. 
 
 THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE CROWDED. 
 
 Before seven o'clock on Sunday night the immense auditorium 
 of the Grand Opera House was crowded to overflowing, and the 
 daily papers of Pittsburg agreed in estimating that fully 2,000 
 persons were unable to obtain admission. There were between 
 3,000 and 3,500 persons in the opera house when the meeting 
 opened. 
 
 The opening address was made by Capt. Robert Hunter, one 
 of Murphy's pledge-signers, and now a thorough friend of the 
 Keeley movement. He made an eloquent speech, reviewing the 
 career of Francis Murphy from the time he had entered upon the 
 temperance work, at Pittsburg, an almost unknown man. The 
 audience was enthusiastic , and at every reference to Murphy 
 broke out in the heartiest applause. 
 
 A GRAND RECEPTION. 
 
 When Francis Murphy stepped forward, the man was so over- 
 come by the magnificent reception he received, that it was some 
 minutes before he could command his voice. He stood before 
 the audience with tearful eyes and trembling lips, incapable of 
 giving utterance to a syllable. The audience remained in perfect 
 silence. At length the white-haired apostle of temperance got 
 control of his feelings, and for a few minutes there poured out 
 from his heart words of love and gratitude for the kindness which 
 has always been shown him by the people of Pittsburg. Before 
 he could go on with his talk some gospel hymns were sung, and 
 after his peculiar manner of conducting a meeting, he called from 
 the stage a number of those who had taken the Murphy pledge, 
 and several gentlemen bore testimony to the fact that they had 
 been induced to lead sober lives by Francis Murphy. Many of 
 these have gone on from five to fifteen years. All of them, 
 without an exception admitted, that it was still a fight that the 
 battle was not yet won. 
 
 WOULD ADVOCATE THE KEELEY CURE. 
 
 Francis Murphy then stepped forward and for the first time 
 mentioned the name of Keeley. The name was received with 
 applause and cheering. The orator was unable to go on for 
 several minutes. He then, in unmistakable terms, proclaimed to 
 
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 the audience that he was a believer in the great physician at 
 Dwight, and that henceforth, wherever he might be, he would 
 advocate the Keeley cure as the most practicable and the surest 
 means known by men for the reformation of the drunkard. This 
 announcement was also followed by an outburst of applause last- 
 ing some moments. Francis Murphy then went briefly over the 
 history of the Keeley movement. 
 
 THEY ARE CRYING "CRUCIFY" HIM. 
 
 He spoke of the sneers which came from the medical profes- 
 sion; of the obstacles Dr. Keeley had to contend with from relig- 
 ious people; of the difficulties which beset every man who gave 
 birth to a new idea. "Jesus Christ," said Mr. Murphy, "was 
 sneered at as Keeley was sneered at. He found it necessary in 
 order to heal men to give them medicine, and his name has come 
 down to us as a physician the greatest physician that ever 
 lived. The Scribes and Pharisees denounced him as a fraud, as 
 they are denouncing the great doctor at Dwight, to-day. It has 
 always been so in this world. It is all a man's life is worth, all a 
 man's character is worth, to be the father of a new discovery in 
 science, or a new idea in religion. They are crying 'crucify' him 
 when we speak of Keeley to-day, as they cried crucify Him, 
 when Christ's name was heard eighteen centuries ago." 4< Oh" 
 said Murphy, "how many times have I prayed for this discovery; 
 how many thousands might I have saved had this man's medi- 
 cine been at my hand; how many thousands of homes might I 
 have made happy, had I known how to cure as Keeley cures." 
 
 GRACE OF GOD AND SCIENCE OF KEELEY. 
 It will be impossible to describe the sensation created through- 
 out the vast audience by these words. Every mention of Keeley's 
 name was followed with applause, and when Francis Murphy 
 declared finally that henceforth, having on his side the grace of 
 God and the science of Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, the temperance 
 movement would assume a magnitude such as it has never 
 reached before, he was compelled to stop because of the con- 
 tinued applause which greeted the declaration. 
 
 He is no Doubter. 
 
 A New York Medical Man Who Sees the Facts as They Are. 
 
 "Dr. Ira C. Brown, the well-^nown West Side physician, is a 
 enthusiast on the Keeley cure. He has used it in his practic 
 and speaking of the manner in which it is spreading all over 1 
 
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 country, remarked to me the other day, that there were 200,000 
 people in the United States who have been cured of all taste of 
 liquor by the treatment. "I highly approve of the suggestion 
 made by the Times, that every man or woman sentenced to prison 
 for drunkenness, should be compelled to take the bi-chloride of 
 gold. It does not depend on the will power of the patient, and 
 will cure the "sot" of his taste for rum whether he likes it or not. 
 Of the 100,000 cases successfully treated, 70,000 are from the 
 parent institute at Dwight, and the remaining 30,000 from branch 
 institutes throughout the country. The success obtained officially 
 has been recognized by the introduction of the bi-chloride of gold 
 cure into the soldiers' home, atQuincy, Illinois, and a number of 
 other soldiers' homes throughout the United States." Buffalo 
 N. F,, Times. 
 
 Governor Francis' Testimony. 
 
 Governor Francis, of Missouri, wrote the following letter which 
 explains itself: 
 
 CITY OF JEFFERSON, July 16. 
 
 Mr. Fntz Nisbet, Secretary and Treasurer St. Louis Bi-Chloride of Gold Club, St. 
 Louis, Mo. 
 
 DEAR SIR: "Your circular letter, dated July 5, was received on the I4th 
 inst. I consider the objects of your organization commendable and worthy 
 of encouragement and material aid. Within the circle of my acquaintance 
 are several men, and at least one woman, who through the aid of bi-chloride 
 of gold cure, have been enabled to conquer appetities which seemed incur- 
 able. They are now useful members of society, and if others can be reclaimed 
 through the instrumentality of your club, as I have no doubt will be done, a 
 great blessing will be conferred upon those who enjoy the benefit of your aid. 
 We are our brother's keeper. I enclose my check for $10 and regret that the 
 frequent calls made upon me will not admit of my contributing a larger sum." 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 DAVID R. FRANCIS. 
 
Medicine and Medical attendance for three weeks, 
 One Hundred and Five Dollars, payable in advance. 
 Twenty-five Dollars per week will be charged thereafter 
 for persons requiring more than a three weeks' course. 
 
FORGET that the KEELEY TREATMENT has stood 
 the test of more than thirteen years. It has been given to 
 more than two hunored th-qfasand persons, and of this num- 
 ber not more than five pec cent, have relapsed into their former 
 habits. The treatment is harmless and no person was ever injured 
 mentally or physically by it, and the patient is entirely free fro m 
 all physical restraint while at the Keeley Institute. Consider these 
 facts if you are in need of treatment. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 THE KEELEY INSTITUTE OF NEVADA. 
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