The evening world., 1892-02-19
NSFLUMTS % THE COLO CURE FIGHTING HEES WILL BEGINNING EXPORT D PEREE
ABmd heIaeAur
Morrow
CRAzED BY THE COLO CURE
W. B. Earle's Family Will Sue
for 100000 Damages.
Legislators to Investigate the White
Plains Institution.

Now that the Legislature has got after the
Keeey bichloridc OF gold cure Tor the drink
habit, there seems 10 be trouble ahead Tor the
White Plains Institution Tor reforming habi =
ual drlnkards.
The resolution which was introduced by
Senator Endres, OF Buffalo, yesterday, and
has been referred TO the commit tee on public
Health, provides r the investigation OF the
so-callcd bichloridc OF gold treatment, with
particular reference to the character OF the
remedies and their effect upon the health aud
physical and mental constitution OF patients.
There have been many reports recently OF
injury to health caused by the keeley treat
ment, and an official investigation OF the de-
| tails OF this secret and mysterious form Of
pathology is In the interest OF the public wei
fare.
II the resolution is adopted, legislative
committee will be appointed at once, and
will begin to examine witnesses, reporting
| the result OF the Investigation to the Senate
not later than March Il next.
| The resolution recites the facts that the
| drug used Is said to contain strychnine, aud
Its use has In many cases led to mental de-
rangement and even death OF the patients
that the belief In the medical profession Is
| that the treatment employed does more harm
than good. and that 1t Is believed the public
health Is being endangered by the existence
OF an institution which pursies such treat
ment.
| Friends and assistants OF Dr. KeeleT pro-
/ fess to court this legislative Investigation OF
the bichoride cure, and declare that II VIII
be n big advertisement Tor the institution ut
White Plains.
| Meanwhile, 1t Is said that the friends o!
| Walter B. Earle, former patient ~ the lnsti.
tute. who died insane after undergoing the
F, treatment and being discharged "Cured' OF
| lig inDprltp habits. are gong 10 make
things lively for the Kelley people.
They claim that Earles death was directly
caused by the bi-chlOride OF gold treatment
and are making arrangements to bring an
action for 100000 damages against DR..
| Kelley and his associates.
The matter is now In the hands OF Charles
| A. Earle, a cousin OF the Inflated keeley pa
| tient and q clerk In the Assembly chamber
at Albany. The parents OF Walter Is. Earle
are old people and live In Yonkers. His tragic
death, so soon after his discharge from the
! White Plains Institute, was a violent shock
to both OF them, and his aged mother has
been completely proctrated by the afliiction
tion is said to have obSel we'd Earles tendency
| towards insanity while he was under treat.
= ment. and neglected to inform any OF his
relatives OF this TACT.
without regard TO those symptoms, and Earle
was loaded up three times a day with injec-
tons OF bichloride of gold, or strychnlne. as
the medical profession call 1t, until his
nervous system, 1t is claimed, was completely
shattered, and he became wreck physically
, as well as mentally.
Earle was discharged from the Institute
"cured Jan. 81 last, after having been
! under tine bichloride treatment for month
/ He began to exhibit symptoms OF mental dis.
turbance as soon as he reached home, and O
week later was seized with acute mania and
| became very violent. lie was put In q
! strait-Iacket and sent to the POughkeepsie
Insane Asylum, wIere he fingered tor weeE
! in terrible agony and then died In the mos!
| shocking commissions.
The death last week OF young James g.
| Fair in san Francisco has served to empha.
size the danger which Is believed to attend
the bichloride treatment, and It is reported
! that many other similar cases have occurred
in various parts OF the country, which are
| only now being brought to public attention.