THE KEELEY CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 72, 29 March 1892, Page 2

THE KEELEY CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.

The editor of the New JForV^TtffrU evidently is not a believer in the efficacy :<jf Keeley'a gold deolarlog Keeley to bs a qafek, ho says, rather abtoptly, thai '• the Dw/gk 111., oharlalao, Keeley, who calls himself the "outer,* is ia a fair way to be considered a killer. Another of his prize advertisers, ex-Ooogresameo Thomas B. Ward, died in Plainyille, led.; early New Year a morning. He was what, with hideout humour, ia called a •patient,' meaning » boarder at 25d0l a week its the Dwighb Hotel. When he went home 'cured *^he continued the farce of hypodermic injeotions of cocaine, morphia, or other ssdatiw or soother, whioh, by a priamafcfoally poetical license, is oalled :• bichloride of gold.' Bufv at home, the ex-Oongresamatt became des-* pondent, and, according to the conventional phrase, ' resumed his old habits'— in plain English, dropped the sedative cocaine and took up the old soother, whisky. Before be wflDfc to Dwight, undoubtedly, a little indulgence ia the old soother, permissible in the festive Beason, would have done him no harm. But he had been brought into a temporarily tempowte condition, wfcaa even one ' spree ' would be apt to result disastrously. He tried it, and then went to join the proaession headed by Colonel John F. Mines, with the Hot Springs, Arkansas, doctor aud other eminent examples of the*eartain cure' in the Dtvight regiment now parading Borne where in * wind-swept space.' It is an* fortunate for Mr Eeely, or rather for his spaaafcion, that the ' 5 per cant' ha admits may 1 relapse should appear eVery month, or offcener, as his most distinguished viofcims. We do not bear of the 60 par oent. of ; 1 nobodies' who relapse j but the newspaper writers, the well-known dootors,!tha ex^Goa,gresamon, and others of note are rather crowding the ' per cent' record. It may ba that the so-oalled ' treatment' is particularly fatal to men of more than ordinary mental gifts. If this is so, it would seem that the charlatan might be made liable, not only for obtaining money under false pretences, but even indictable for manslaughter.'' American Analyist.