The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-03-22
now THE GOLD CURE
WAS DISCOVERED.
TUE LATE DIR. LI,SIIEE. kEtI,lGV

The Discovcrcr Of tho Famous Rem.
cdy for the Drink Habit-~A Sketch
OF His Remarkable Lite.
The discovery OF the gold cure Tor
the liquor habit won q world wide re.
putatiOn for DR.. Leslie f.. Nuclcy, who
died a few weeks ago in Los Angeles,
Cal, whore he had built u winter home.
For many years he had been u sufferer,
and heart dieeaSe Is stated TO have
been the cause Of his death.
Leslie T.. koelcy was born in pots.
dam, N. Y, in 1882. His father was
an old fashioned country doctor, but ~
man OF wide reading anu full Of cccrn-
tricities. Leslie WAS sent to sChoul,
and was regarded AZ an apt acholar,
but 1t was his custom as u child, when
school hours ended, to hurry W the vii
lage tavern, whore the arrival Of the
stage coach was always awaitcd by d.
crowd Of villagers. The driver would
pull up his team, throw his rciuS to IN
ObSc9uious hostler, and hurry into the
barrCom. Young keclGy would follow
and, with the crowd which attended,
listened with open ears to the news
which he oracularly docd out.
The stage driver was young Leslie
kceley's hero, but one night his nu-
merous admirers invited him 10 the
bar too. frequently. and his steps
driver sank down on the ground, ana
went into a stertorous sleep. Krelcy
watched him until morning. From
that night the boy had sort Of u.ania
TO watch all men who were addicted to
drink, and it is related Of him that
night after night he would follow and
care for tho villagers and visitors W he
drank too hard. He WAS laughed IS,
but he stored up the various charac.
teristiCs Of thc drinking men and the
apparent effects which liquor had on
them.
When the boy grew to young mau-
hood, having earned Is little money, ne
came West aud added tn his experience
by u residence in New Orleans and sov-
eral trips up the Missouri and Missi5
sippi rivers. lie came to Chicago and
entered as a student in Rush Medical
college in 1860, and was therefore in
his second year when the civil war be-
gun. He volunteered, and rs a medical
cadet was assigned to duty at Jefferson
barracks, near ST. Louis. Tho medical
officers IN charge were glad to have
an ardent young man to relieve them.
But Cadet kcclcy awakened them
when he reported to them that the
barracks ana The whole camp were in
such condition that an epidemic Of ty-
Ipholi fever might be expected. Cadet
kcCiuy did more. He scpta cOmmuni-
cation TO headquarters, and the result
WAS sanitary 0verhauiing. Then
Cadet kGeley was made an assistant
surgeon, u. S. v, and placed in COM
mand as medical officer OF the oar
racks.
Surgeon keeley was ordered into ac-
h,i,r 10, Il 4
tor. He arr8ut:ru his stan. iud ircon
petent men discharged, and organized
q system Of caring for the wounded
which cOntained the essence Of ,he
plans now in use the world over.
!, When the war was ended young
keeley returned to Rash Medicn, col
legc. Ho w&s graduated in 1866 and
looked for Il place 10 locate. Finally he
decided on Dwight, Livingston County,
H., and bo settled down, rs an all.
around country doctor. He was sue
cesaful. For years he drove his team
over the prarics and the farmers tUsti-
fy to his ability.
The Chicago and Alton railroad ap.
pointed him division surgeon, and
when the terrible accident near the
Summit occurred DR.. Kceluy was first
at hund. When the relief train from
Chicago with Il corps Of physicians and
surgeons appeared On the scene DR..
kceley, without any real authority
save his presence, organized them into
definite action.
,, During all these years DR.. Koclcy
had been intensely Interested in the
investigation OF the various phases OF
) the ELECTS Of alcohol and other drugs
He had convinced himself that there
was nothing IN the claim that hercdity
had anything TO do with cithar. He
believed that while Il ncurosis might
: be entniled upon descendants. they
were not upon necessity liquor or drug
Nscrs. His position made a hue and
cry among physicians.
DR.. Kceley's experience in the army
and in his railroad connections had
convinced him that alcoholism was a
disease and could be cured. He began
to experiment. He found that alcohol
attacked! certain nerve forces. The
salts Of gold years ago bad been used,
and he experimental with them. 10
an extent they wore dangerous. An
old farmer who had been one OF his
patients for years started on one Of his
numerous " "urunkS' y and tried to kill
, himself. He wanted to die and rcviled
tho doctor for his rcsuscitntiOn. He
had drunk up the value Of two farms
! and WAS rapdly making away with
"a third. DR.. keelcy saw his opportu
Il Tnity.
Would you rather die than 90 on
. drinking ~ asked the doctor.
n )" You bet"
: Then take this" and Dr., Kcclcy
u gave him q pill, and followed IL with
i three others. There was trouble, ant
' the dose was too strong. but the o!d
: farmer survived. lie saved his thrl
farm and died long afterward sober
man..
This convinced DR.. keclcy that he
was or the right track. He wrote tt
}, several, hundred well known physicians
h to ascertain what they knew about tho
T. etloCts Of salts Of gold. A few respond
=. ed. and their information WAS mcagcr
G DR.. Keelcy compounded q prescription
g ADD sent it out with request TO ply
t sicianS to give it Is trial. Many sent il
G reply that it was u success.
y lie then opened an institution a.
0 Dwight, late in the '80a, and gave NJ
J. his general PRACTICE For two years he
z continued, but his success cs were only
IS about 80 per cent. He was not salts
n fed and so he clDseO The businCsG ant