Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-31
KEELEY'S CURE.
AN INTERESTING Talk WITH TEE CHLORIDE
OF GOLD
DisCOvGW-Hs Eas Visited Kuropst to Learn Some
thing Of the Habits Of the People There
With Regard 10 DriDking-HS
Price For Treatment.

New YORK, October 3O.-Dr. Leslie
Kelley arrived in this city yesterday
morning on the Majestic. He has made
himself famous by his discovery of
bichlOride of gold cure for drunkenness:
The doctor is fully six feet tall ana
looks like philanthropist.
my visit to Europe was primarily
for rest and incidentally to study the
statistics of drunkenness on tht CONT
nent and in Great Britain" said DR..
Kelley. found more drunkenness In
Scotland and England than / believe
exists in America, and rather less In
Ireland. In Germany I found very lit
tie, and none at all in Italy.
The lack of drunkenness on the Con-
tinent I believe to be due to the fact that
so much beer and light wine is drunk
there, which in measure 'vacclnates'
the people against drunkenness, as eX'
hibited in Great Britain and the United
States. This effect is accomplished, l
believe, by giving to the people who use
beer and light wines an acquired power
TO resist alcohol.
I'm Great Britain 1 believe that the
prevalence of the vice is largely due to
the cold winds and continuous rains.
The prevalence of liquor drinking In
France is less in my belief than that one
remarks in other countries, simply be-
cause there is such vast amount OF
wine consumed there.
"While Paris l was told by well
known physician that the use Of liquor
had materially lessened there since the
steady increase of the opium habit,
which had been very marked OF late
years.
ST have been asked II it was my In
tention to make public the secret OF the
formula used in my cure for drunken
ness. To this question can only reply
no, for to give it to the profession at
large would not be keeping faith with
those who in the infancy OF the dis
covery contracted with the Kelley COM
pany and paid their money for the
right to use the remedy in several
States.
Again the question arises as to
whether it would not be expedient to
put the secret of the formula in the
hands of charlatans, inexperienced doc
tors and ignorant drug clerks.
at is not possible that these persons
instead of following the formula would
add to it, take from it and substitute in
gradients which in their opinion would
do quite as well. 1t is fair to suppose
that this bicloride of gold would be sold
not by regular physicians, but by So
called druggists and proprietors OF med
icines. Such being the case, what as
surance would the reputable physician
or patient have that the preparation
sold was my medicine pure and simple:
eff the medical profession think /
have not made my claim good, then the
secret will never be known. But as
soon as reputable medical men agree
that my discovery is sound l will reveal
its composition and the method OF It's
manufacture. =.
DR.. Kelley said he regretted that II
had been stated that he had refused
offers of large sums to cure individual
cases in the families of wealthy men
HeaR that It thD@I gfs, bit 35n@RgEEGGe B tGl
Keeley's institution is, and that was S25
week. Persons unable to pay that
were treated for nothing.