Author: Leslie E. Keeley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385469961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author: Leslie E. Keeley
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Category : Opium abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: Kenneth Anderson
Publisher: Independently published
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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This book tells the story of the huge addiction treatment industry which flourished in the United States between 1890 and the advent of Prohibition in 1920. The story begins in Russia in 1886, where a number of doctors discovered a relatively effective pharmacological treatment for alcoholism. Although this Russian discovery was published in countless major English language medical journals, it was entirely ignored by the US addiction experts of the day, who eschewed pharmacological treatments, and instead preferred to lock people up in inebriate asylums where they could be subjected to religious coercion. However, an obscure railroad physician and patent medicine salesman named Leslie E. Keeley, who lived in the dusty prairie town of Dwight, Illinois, read about the Russian treatment in a medical journal and decided to give it a try. Much to his surprise, the Russian treatment proved highly effective, and, by 1891, Dr. Keeley was treating upwards of a thousand patents a day at the Keeley Institute in Dwight. Keeley was a salesman and a bit of a Barnum; he always claimed that he had invented the cure himself after decades of painstaking research and he called it the Gold Cure, claiming that his secret ingredient was gold. Of course, there was no gold in the gold cure other than the gold which lined Keeley's pockets. However, the treatment was relatively effective, and by 1893 there were over 100 Keeley Institutes operating in the United States and abroad, and hundreds of copycats were operating imitation gold cure institutes. The Keeley Gold Cure was even adopted by the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the US Army. The Keeley treatment took 28 days and required hypodermic injections four times a day for the entire period. On the other hand, the Gatlin Institutes which opened in 1902 and the Neal Institutes which opened in 1909 used a form of aversion treatment and advertised themselves as three-day liquor cures. Competition between the gold cures and the three-day liquor cures in the first two decades of the 20th century was fierce and intense. Then, as the United States entered World War One in 1917, the demand for addiction treatment suddenly dried up for a variety of reasons, and the majority of these proprietary cure institutes had shut down before the enactment of Prohibition in 1920, although the parent Keeley Institute in Dwight remained in operation until 1966. This book contains the never-before-told tale of how these proprietary treatment institutes grew into a huge industry, flourished, then finally faded away as the United States entered World War One. Part One of this book covers the Keeley Institutes, Dipsocura, the Bedal Institutes, the McKanna liquor cure, the Wherrell gold cure, and the Hagey Cure. Part Two of this book covers the Morrell Cure, the National Bichloride of Gold Institutes, the Oppenheimer Institutes, the Tyson Vegetable Cure, the Willow Bark Institutes, the Telfair Sanitarium, the Connelley Cure, the Murray Institutes, the Gatlin Institutes, the Neal Institutes, the S. B. Collins Cure, and the D'Unger Cure. Part Two also contains appendices discussing strychnine, belladonna alkaloids, "jag cure" laws, and more.

Author: Leslie E. Keeley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385469953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author: Leslie E 1842-1900 Keeley
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014237538
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Leslie E. Keeley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338532873X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author: Keeley Leslie E.
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ISBN: 9780259653257
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Languages : en
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Author: Leslie E. Keeley
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ISBN: 9783337449568
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Leslie E. Keeley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331225034
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Excerpt from The Morphine Eater: Or From Bondage to Freedom, the Opium, Morphine and Kindred Habits; Their Origin, Nature and Extent, Together With the Proper Method of Treatment to Be Adopted For the past twenty years I have devoted much time to the study of the Opium Habit in all its forms. During the war, and in an active practice since then, I have been favored with many opportunities for successfully observing opium cases. I have conversed and corresponded with thousands of victims of the habit and have thus been able to arrive at practical conclusions concerning the pathology and treatment of this disease. For many years I entertained the popular ideas of the profession upon this subject; but extended research and personal observations have given me a more accurate and certain knowledge of its nature and results. It is because the habit is so little understood, and an urgent need exists for the latest scientific and medical information concerning it, that I have written the following pages. They contain no idle theories, but are replete with practical facts. I have written for the people as well as the profession, in the hope that the unwary may be fully warned against a vice which is so delusive and dangerous. The members of the profession will, I trust, find in this volume a help in the treatment of opiumania and morphism; while to the myriad victims of the drug it will open a door of hope which will lead them into the perfect sunshine of liberty and health. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: General William Booth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734081750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Reproduction of the original: In Darkest England and the Way out by General William Booth