Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-10
NOT A FAILURE YET.
Dr.. Estep Answers Charges Made
Against the Kelley Cure.
1T is NOT AN ELIXIR CT LIFE,
Bet Less Than Five Per Cent of Patients
Return to Drinking.
ANOTHER PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTE

world famed medicine appears to be becom.
ing more popular every day, and is being Sc
urgently demanded in Pennsylvania that a
fourth institute will be established at
Tionesta, Forest county. The other three
are at Pittsburg Philadelphia and Scranton.
The one to be established at Tionesta will
be opened about the first of next month.
Mr.. Burton, the State manager for DR..
Kelley, stated Yesterday that IL patients
have already signi6ed their intention OF
taking treatment at Tionesta and he ex-
poets that more will fall in line. The town
is not far from the New York line and will
be located in the center of district that is
not convenient to any other institute.
The Pittsburg institute will be moved to
Sewickley shortly in order to have the
possible. DR.. Estep, the physician in charge,
said yesterday that it had been found that
cities are not as good as small towns to have
institutes located in.
''Our patients do not board or room with
u.s." he said, "when they are commencing the
treatment there is danger of them drinking
on the outside. We allow them as much
liquor as they need, but they occasionally
commence drinking in saloons and that is
not allowed. When we get to Sewickly,
there will not be as much temptation and
the surroundings will be a great deal more
pleasant We may not get as many patients,
but that is secondary consideration in con-
nection with curing alive get The iPhila-
delphia institute will be moved to Media,
and all the institutes in cities will be urged
to move into the country.
No Extravagant Claims Made.
1.-The Kelley cure does not guarantee per-
petual life. 1t is not the boon for which
Ponce de Leon searched, but it is cure for
drunkenness; blessing to mankind that is
almost unparalleled and the recent attacks
on bi-chloride of gold have been unwar-
ranted and outrageous Men die after tax
ing the Kelley cure just the same as a man
may die week, or a month, or year after
being treated for typhoid fever. In the
latter case no one would think of ascribing
death to the medicine taken, but because
bi-chloride of gold is q secret and has been
successful in the purpose for which 1t
is used, its enemies lie in wait to
attack it without regard to truth or consist
ency. Our enemies are the liquor interests
and Jealous physicians. They made an un-
successful attempt to have the New York
Legislature make an ass of itself, and every
few days they flash some new sensation when
a graduate dies from any cause whatever.
''The case in which perhaps the most talk
has been made was that of the death of
james G. Fair, Jr., a son of ex-senator
Fair, of California Mr.. Fair was
graduate at Dwight Like most habitual
alcoholic uses, he had a great deal of un-
natural fat that was in itself disease. His
death was due to fatty degeneration of the
heart, but, notwithstanding the statement
to that effect by the physicians who held
the autopsy, it vas heralded all over the
county that bi-chloride had killed him; that
the Kelley cure was failure and should be
prohibited by law. That Mr.. Fairs death
was not caused by bi-chloride is made evil
dent by letter sent by ex-senator Fair to
Mr.. Burton, OF the Philadelphia institute,
in whish he saws:
"The Keeley treatment had nothing to do
with my sons death. 1 consider it one of
the greatest boons to mankind of the age
Result of an Autopsy.
CDR. TAFT, who held the autopsy, stated it
was very thorough and with the exception of
the heart, liver and kidneys, the body was
sound and healthy. The brain was in
normal condition, well developed. with
rather more than average development of
the frontal lobes. If that doesn't settle the
sensational statements that Nh. Fairs death
was caused by bi-chlor1de of gold, it seems
to me there is nothing that would
When asked about the unsuccessful effort
of the New York Legislature to have a
committee appointed to investigate the
Keeley remedies, Dr. Estep referred to an
interview with DR.. Kelley in the Bvuaer of
Gold in which he says:
This Legislature attempted to appoint
committee to investigate our remedies and
methods of treatment at the White Plains
institute with view to crippling us or run
ming Us out of the State altogether. at
tribute this opposition entirely to the
Liquor Dealers League, which controls the
of this league and Governor Hill several
weeks ago there. was a sweeping repeal of |
nearly all the restrictive liquor laws on the |
statute books. As our institutes are curing |
the disease of inebriety so fast as to affect /
the liquor trade they were seen to aim at |
the very life of the liquor interest in that |
State. Hence the effort to obstruct or de- |
stroy our work We court investigation; |
we are not afraid; our remedies are harm |
less, and if the Liquor Dealers Association |
should ever succeed in driving us out of |
New York it will be all the worse for the |
people of that Commonwealth. Such an |
action will be boomerang that will return |
and strike its thrower and ultimately de- |
stroy the liquor interests of that State"
The Government Contract.
Continuing, Dr.. Estep stated that con- |
tract has been made with the Government of |
the United States for the use of bi-chloride |
of gold remedies in % national and State |
soldiers and sailors homes Again quoting
from Dr.. keeley, DR.. Estep read the fol-
lowing:
'In addition to this big contract at home
the Kelley Company closed bond option
in London with an English syndicate last
Saturday for over $500, 900, for the use of
its remedies and treatment in institutes to
be founded in London, Liverpool, Man
chester, Sheffield, Edinburg, Glasgow, Bel
fast and Dublin. / will 60 over there N.Y.
self in May to open the Institutes
''You see the people who know the curse
of drink and who want to be cured are not |
influenced by the sensational fakes of liquor
Dealers" continued Dr. Estep 1--WE could
publish cures every day if it were not that |
the names of graduates are Kept absolutely
quiet. 1t seems strange to me that men who |
stagger along the streets to the disgrace of
themselves and every person connected with
them should be ashamed to have it known
that they are making men of themselves,
hut as long as they want their names kept
quiet we will do SO.
The Percentage of Failures
"Since this institute was opened on Au-
gust / we have had over $50 graduates, and |
less than per cent have returned to the use
of Eouor. Our banner case, think, was
that of bright physician in Pittsburg who