The evening world., 1892-02-19
CRAzED BY THE COLO CURE.
W. B. Earle's Family Will Sue
for 100000 Damages.
Legislator to Investigate tho White
Plains Institution.

Now tina, the Legislature has got after the
keelcy bichl1ride OF gold cure Tor the drink
habit. there seems to be trouble ahead for tho
White Plains institution for rcforming habl =
ual drInkarIS
The resolution which was Introduced by
Senator Endres, OF Bufralo, yesterday, and
has been referred to the Committee on Public
Health, provides fer the Investigation OF the
s,-called bichloridc Of gold treatment, with
particular reference to the character of the
remedies and their erect upon the health and
physical and mental constitution Of patients.
There have been many reports recently OF
injury To health caused by the ketiey treat
ment, and an official Investigation OF the de-
tails OF this secret and mysterious form uf
pathology is In the interest Oi the public wei
fare
II tho resolution Is adopted, a Legislative
committee Will be appointed at once, and
win bcgin to examine witnesses. reporting
he result Of the Investigation to the Senate
not later than March II next
The resolution recitcs the facts that the
drug used is SAID to contain strychnine, and
It's usr has In many cases led to mental de-
rangcment and even death OF the patients; {;
that the belief In the medical profession Is
that the treatment employed does more harm
thaa good. and that It Is believed the public
health is being endangered by the existence
OF an institution which pursles such treat
ment.
Friends and assistants OF DR.. kce,er pro-
fcss 70 court this legislative Investigation ot
the birhioride cure, aud declare that II Will
he u big advertisement for the institution At
White Plains.
Meanwhile, It Is said that the friends OF
Walter b. Earle, a former patient N the Insti-
tute, who died insane after undergoing the
treatment and being discharged "cured" OF
1.t a, go, IN nn in m Ia.
things lively Tor the keeley people,
They claim that Earle's death was directly
caused by the bi-chloride OF gold treatment
Keeley and his associates.
The matter is now ia the hands OF Charles
| A. Earle, cousin OF the ill-fated keelcy pa
ticnt and clerk In the Assembly Chamber
| at Albany. The parents OF Walter b. Earle
are old people and live In Yonkers. HIS tragic
| death, 80 soon after his discharge from the
to both OF them, and his aged mother has
been completely proatrated by the affliction.
Dr. Haynor. superintendent OF the institu.
ton, is said to have o0sel we'd Earlcs te ndency
| towards insanity while he was under treat.
ment. and neglected to inform any OF hi
| relatives OF this iact-
the treatment, II is said, was continued
without regard 70 those symptoms. and Earle
tons OF bichloridc OF gold, or strycbnine, a.
the medical profession call It, until hi:
nervous system. II is claimed, WIS completely
| shattered, and H. became wreck PHYSICAL,
US well rs mentally.
Earle was discharged from the Institute
"cured" " Jan. ~ last, after having been
| under the bichlorids treatment for a month
| He began to exhibit symptoms OF mental dis.
turbance as soon as he reached home, and q
week later was seized with acute mania and
became very violent. He was put in a
| strait Jacket nnd sent to the Poughkeepsie
Insane Asylum, where he fingered Tor n weeS
In terrible agony and then died In the most
shocking convuisions.
The death last week OF young James q.
Fair IN san Francisco has served TO empha.
Size the danger which Is believed to attend
the hichlOride treatment, and II Il reported
that many other similar cases have occurred
iu various parts OF the country, which are
only now being brought to public attention.