Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-11-26
KEELEY on HIS CURE.

DR.. LESLIE E. KELLEY has an article
in the North american ReUielC for De-
cember, on MY Gold Cure" which
while bearing all the ear-marks of a
"free ad," is none the less interesting,
as showing the Doctors opinion of his
cure in the face of certain facts and
criticisms. OF the death in fit
Of delerium tremens, Of Col. JOHN
K. MINES, who wrote so glowingly of
KEELEY'S cure and his own personal
experience, in the North american Re
UielU a month ago, DR.. KEELEY says:
Col. Mines came to Dwight a physical
and mental wreck. Being man of bril-
liant intellect and great variability, his
nervous system, even in its normal state,
was subject to the greatest mutations,
going from the state OF highest enthu-
siasn 70 one Of deepest detection in an in.
credi0ly short time. Ia Colonel
Mines case, after progressing partially
through the trca meuJ the suspicion of
Daresis was aroused and mnch sOlicitude
caused 10 me for fear that an unusually
magnificent mind was 10 be permanently
lost 20 the world. That sOicitude caused
me to keep regular correspondence with
the patient, and as late as September 20 Col.
Onel Mines wrote TO NE in Paris in such
extravagant terms of his cure, betraying
such an emotional state, that / was more
fearful than ever Of progressing nervous
disease. When landing from the steamer
in New York / looked in vain for Colonel
MineS'S face among the crowd on the dock,
and il was not till the next day, when a
mutual friend called, that | obtained any
knowledge of him. This friend said he
had met Colonel Mines few days before
AID was afraid he mad gone wrong. He
had acted acted like one under the influence
of drugs, suggestive of either hydrate of
choral or sulfOnal, or q mixture OF both.
sent out gentleman familiar with
Colonel Mines's habits and haunts seeking
him high and low, as long as l remained in
New York, and il was not until reached
Chicago that learned of the pitia6le end
Of my brilliant pstiest.
DR.. KEELEY continues:
The friend who met him described his
condition as one of deep detection and mel
ancholy. Evidently his mercurial temper
ament had been subjected to one of those
terrible reactions or reverseS that he was
so prone 70, and he had reSorted 10 some
drug to overcome the depression, and, being
easily and dangerously impressed by 10,
was really insane at the time Il viii prob
ably never be known what the causes were
that brought about bis fall, but the conclu-
sion TO be made is that, with his tempera-
meot and environment, a lasting cure was
not 10 be effected He was, in fact, one Of
the5 per cent. Of patients that could not be
permanently cured.
1t will be noticed that DR.. KELLEY
does not admit that whisky did it, al
though he does admit that Col. MINES
was one Of the men in whose cases "a
lasting cure was not to be effected. !"
This is an admission which narrows the
efficacy Of the bi-chloride Of gold ''cure"
down TO men not as mentally capable
or ''brilliant'. as Col, MINES, though Col.
Mines brilliancy never dazzled the eyes
Of the world and Col. MINES, himself.
was practically unknown TO the reading
public until he distinguished himself by
dying OF what is vulgarly termed ''the
JAMS"
OF the main objection brought for.