1939 Time magazine -the Keenly Cure
 

Monday, Sep. 25, 1939
Keeley Cure

"On January 26th, 1896, I entered your institution. I am ashamed to say that for five years I had drunk one quart of whiskey a day. On January 28th, 1896, I took my last drink." So runs a typical testimonial to the once-famous Keeley Institute in the cornbelt town of Dwight, Ill., long a Mecca for drunkards who wanted to get out of John Barleycorn's clutches.

Last week the Keeley Institute celebrated its 60th anniversary. Before a small crowd of enthusiastic but sober alumni, Director James Henry Oughton Jr. unveiled a bronze plaque of Founder Leslie E. Keeley, a Civil War surgeon who announced his cure in 1879. With his famed slogan, "Drunkenness is a disease and I can cure it," and his "secret" injections of gold chloride, Dr. Keeley amassed a fortune of over $1,000,000. During the 'gos, Keeley clubs flourished all over the U. S., proud Keeley alumni sported shiny gold buttons, preached excitingly confessional sermons to female temperance societies.

Unvarying is the traditional Keeley routine. An incoming inebriate pays $160, plus room and board, must stay for 31 days. His whiskey ration is gradually tapered off: eight ounces the first day, six ounces the second, four ounces the third, none from then on. Four times a day he gets gold chloride injections; every two hours he takes a tonic. At the end of the course, Keeley Drs. Robert Estill Maupin, Bert Trippeer and Andrew Jackson McGee look him over, ask him if he still feels the "irresistible craving of nerve cells for alcohol." Usually he says no. How many of the 400,000 Keeley graduates have stayed cured, Director Oughton does not know, for he has no means of checking up. Although most physicians now believe that drunkards are neurotics and cannot be cured by injections, Keeley stoutly boasts that it has cured 17,000 drunken doctors since it first opened its doors.

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egyptian & antiquity and the use of silver/colloids
 

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INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL SUCCESSES AGAINST VIRAL INFECTIONS
WITH SILVER FORMULATIONS
The pre-dynastic Egyptians started using silver as currency around 3500 BC. Since ancient
times, silver has been highly regarded as a premier preservative and antimicrobial agent
[1–4]. So esteemed was silver for this purpose that it literally permeated the known world,
including ancient Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Macedonia [5, 6]. Hippocrates (circa 400
BC) taught that the flowers of silver by itself, in the finest powder, would heal non-healing
wound ulcerations [7]. In 69 BC, silver nitrate was described in the contemporary
pharmacopoeia [8].
A few thousand years later (1897), silver nitrate began to be widely used in America. The
result was an enormous alleviation in blindness among newborns, as it still is today [9, 10].
Just prior to this event, a major discovery occurred that was to give lasting purpose and
impart definitive meaning to the entire spectrum of silver-based aids. This pivotal discovery
Journal of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (June 2003) 13(2), 109–118
ISSN 1359-0847 print/ISSN 1364-6907 online/03/020109-10 # Taylor & Francis Ltd

HISTORICAL VERSATILITY OF SILVER ADMINISTRATION
The older medical literature provided various guidelines and methods of administration for
crude silver formulations. Solutions, ointments, sprays, dusting powder, tablets, irrigations,
suppositories, and tampons were employed. Direct application of different silver
formulations depended upon their caustic or non-caustic attributes, and accordingly
were applied to conjunctiva, nose and throat, topical wounds and ulcers, urethra, bladder,
vagina and rectum [37].
The application methods included intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, and oral.
Historic clinical reports have stated that injected Ag1 produced dramatic immediate
improvement in URT infections [15].
DISCUSSION: PROBING THE STRATEGIC ASPECTS OF THE
ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF SILVER
Like bacteria and fungi, infectious viral organisms may have multiple susceptibilities when
encountering oligodynamic Ag1. On the other hand, evidence suggests that oligodynamic
Ag1 will not interfere with normal white blood cell (WBC) activity, and may even enhance
WBC activity [38, 39]. Feng et al. [40] concluded that oligodynamic Ag1 offered profound
immune benefits because of its ability to intervene with select bacteria in three key ways
almost simultaneously. Central to all three is the ability of oligodynamic Ag1 to denature
(dose-dependent permanent inactivation) essential microorganisms’ protein and DNA:
1. One type of essential protein maintains the integrity of the cell’s membranes and
boundaries. Once the membranes become unstable, the cell begins to rupture.
2. Simultaneously, the smallest sizes of Ag1 may more easily penetrate the membrane
pores of the bacteria. Once penetration occurs, life-essential enzyme reactions governing
cell metabolism go into partial or full arrest.
3. As the silver further penetrates the most interior recesses of the cell, the genetic building
blocks (nucleic acids) of the germs are paralyzed, ending the ability of the invaders to replicate.
DOI: 10.1080/13590840310001594061