The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-25
A KELLEY CURE CASE
The White Plains Institute is to
be Sued for Damages.
M. Angel, star" Patient, is Discharged as
Cured" but the Cure Was Worse
Than the Disease
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Especial to THE HERALD-Examlner Dispatch |
New York March 2f.-The "Keeley
cure" as administered at White Plains.
has so seriously injured the health and
consequently the business of Mr.. Isaac
Angel, of New York, the first president of
tie Bi-chloride of Gold club at White Plains,
that he is contemplating taking legal
measures to obtain redress and to turn the
search light Of court room examination
on the mystery of the 'icuren II he takes
the advice of mis- friends he will certainly
do this.
The case of MIR. Angel is peculiar and of
lnterset. Ill-health compelled him to
abandon his practice few years ago He
was suffering from an ulcer IL the stomach,
and after consultation with eminent doc
tors in this country, England and Ger
many, and suffering terrible agonies which
even their skill could not cure. he at last
found relief in Vienna, where Prof. Bill
roth performed successfully delicate and
difficult operation. Mr.. Angel returned to
New York on March l, 1891, and
in April resumed his practice. To
mitigate the intense pain which he had suf-
fered from his stomach, medical advisers
had given Mr.. Angel morphine Injections
After the operation Prof. Bilroth instruct
constant T.
tendance on Mr. Angel that the morphine
Injections must be continued for time
Mr.. Angel was making splendid progress
and the injections had been reduced to small
quantities, when he read some Keeley lit
erature and got the idea that in the BIZ
chloride treatment there might be a roval
road to complete health and a cessation
OF the necessity for the use Of morphine.
MIR. Angel was never a slave to the
nfAIta HE no,
he took were always given by physician
He went away from his Office in Noyember
and has rot returned 10 it, MIR. Angel
went to White Plains on November ~. He
went to the institute and gave full &C
count of his case to keeley's representa-
tive. The Kelley doctors unEesitatingly
promised TO cure" Mr. Angel MIR. Angel
handed over $50 to begin with and BEGAN
a Kelley patient without delay His remark
able case was used in the usual Keeley
fashion for advertising purposes. He was
was pointed out as difficult subiectn
and was quite STAR When the Ri
chloride of GClo club was started ne was
made its president But the more Mr.
Angel got of the "cure' the more feeble
did he become. He lost flesh and grew so
weak that he could not walk from the in
stitute to the hotel at which he was s.av-
ing. his physician visited him and was
much disturb bed. Mr.. Angel was several
weeks under treatment. He had lost,
about forty pounds, and was wreck when
he was discharged as "cured." He was
taken 10 his home January II. He was so
thin and CHASTITY that friends who saw him
could scarcely recognize him. He had
severe hemorrhages ard suffered from
heart failure and fainting spells. His
physician had almost given him up, but his
naturally strong constitution and the con-
slant attention of the doctor and nurse
saved his life