The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-24
KELLY AND JOE SMITH
Secular Subjects Handled
By Secular Speakers
in Two Pulpits.
QUIMBY BATTLES TIE GOLD CURE
Mr.. ". Il. Beach Talks Pleasantly
Of a Visit TO Salt Lake
City.

TIE Keeiy method of curing drunken
ness was the subject discussed at the
Tabernacle last evening. Colonel ii. W.
| Rowell of Washington, d. c., was the
principal speaker. but others Joined in
Allen Burdick, Medical Director of the
Keely Institute at Orange, aud DR.. ]. N.
| Quimby OF this city.
Colonel Roweil In his lecture said that
he once was acting Chief Clerk of the
House of Representatives and that he was
not engaged in an effort to advertise the
Keely cure. He belonged to a club OF in
f1uential men who had been reclaimed
from a drunkard's life and who contri-
buted largely to assist others who had
become victims of intemperaDce.
Eighty thousand men. the Colonel de-
clarek. had been saved through DR..
Keely's cure. aud now there were 5000
persons every month being turned out of
| the different institutions in the world
and pronounced cured. The treatment
had been tested more closely, he thought.
than any other cure. including Pasteur's
and Koch's. and had stood every test. A
board, consisting of the Secretary of War,
the Chief Justice of the United States
Supreme Court and thiiteen General
Officers of the Army made q most thor.
ouXh investigation of the Ire ttinent OF
DIR. Kelly. aud recon- mended its adOp-
| ton by the Government in all the Sol
diers' Homes.
after Colonel RoweII had contin ued in
this strain for some time. talking in the
language which is always to be found on
pntent medicine circulsrS, he
that DR.. Bnrdick would answer any ,ques-
ton concerning the Keely cure any one
in the audience might desire TO ask.
DIR. oUIMBY's QUESTION.
DR.. Quimby had come prepared TO-
this, and had listened with attention to
he prepared for the opportunity. In his
hat the doctor had carefully placed d
bundle of papers that he had gathered
for the purpose of proving the Keely cure
q Simon pure fake. He arose with the
calpness of conviction. and passing one
hand through his long siivery locks
sought with the other the bundle of
papers.
81 would like to ask said the good
doctor,o why the analysis of the Keely
medicine has not been authoritively pub
lisled. 1t should be il it is good, aud the
withholding of tt Is. to say The least, un-
scientific" DR.. Quimby here produced
from the bundle of papers a copy of the
London Lancet, the leading medical
p per of the English speaking world.
From this DIR. Quimby read M extract
which gave the result OF the analysis of
the cure by a London chemist of con.
siderable fame.
zine result" said the paper, showed
that extremely dangerous ingredients
were used. such as no honest physician
would prescribe for such treatment"
DR.. burdick replied that no chemist
had ever successfully analysed DIR.
Keely's cure. DR.. keely had made a
public offer to publish his secret to the
wo lid it any three reputable chemists In
q test case should arrive at the same re-
suits of analysis. The reason why DR..
Keely refused to publish it was that his
method of treatment required the servi-
ces OF specialists, and if 1t became gener-
ally known. unskilled hands would prac-
tice it.
wHERE IT FAILED.
DIR. Quimby informed DIR. Burdick that
he was acquainted with a humber of
| hrunkards who had been treated by the
Kelly cure. aud none of them had de-
rived any benefit some of them were
worse off for the treatment, and in some
cases death resulted.
Il Can easily explain this fact" replied
DR.. Burdict, .'for there are more thai
300 institutes Ia existence which simply
initiate the Keely treatment. The num-
Der of failures to cure in the Kelley in
institutes is but five per cent. of the mum
Der treated. When | was employed by
DR.. Keeiy at Dwight. Mass, / kept the
records of $1,000 cases. aud know, there.
fore, that the assertions | have made are
Irue.n
DR.. Quimby concluded the discussion
in his well known vigorous manner He
declared that the Keely treatment was
unscientiic and denounced the medicines
used and stated that the Kelly treatment
was a dishonest one.