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Leslie Enraught Keeley, M.D. (June 10, 1836 – February 21, 1900) was an American physician, originator of the Keeley Cure.〔〔 ==Biography== He was born in Potsdam, New York on June 10, 1836.〔The American National Biography uses the year 1832. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography uses 1834. His passport applications consistently use the date June 10, 1836. The 1880 US Census uses 1836. The Virtual International Authority File uses 1842.〕 Keeley graduated at the Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1863, and later entered the Union Army as a surgeon. At the end of the war he moved to Dwight, Illinois, where he began his private medical practice. There, in 1880, he opened a sanatorium for persons addicted to the immoderate use of alcohol and opium. He asserted that "Alcoholism is a disease and I can cure it." His treatment centered on a secret preparation that he said contained bichloride of gold. However, chemical analysis revealed that the proprietary tonic contained 27.55% alcohol plus ammonium chloride, aloin and tincture of cinchona but no gold. His hypodermic injections contained sulfate of strychnine, atropine and boracic acid.〔James Roosevelt, (In Sickness and Health ). Appleton, 1896, p. 79〕 In 1890, Keeley began selling franchises and by 1893 there were 92 Keeley Institutes in the US, Canada, and Mexico〔(University of New Brunswick Archives & Special Collections-The Leslie E. Keeley Institutes of the Maritime Provinces Company (Fredericton, N.B.) fonds ). Lib.unb.ca. Retrieved on 2012-04-21.〕 and that number grew to over 200 and expanded to Europe. In 1939, ''Time'' magazine reported that "Unvarying is the traditional Keeley routine. An incoming inebriate pays $160, plus room and board, must stay for 31 days. His weekly whiskey ration is gradually tapered off: eight ounces the first day, six ounces the second, four ounces the third, none from there on. Four times a day he gets gold chloride injections; every two hours he takes a tonic." 〔Keeley cure, Time, September 25, 1939〕 At its height, the clinic in Dwight treated 700 patients per day. Keeley claimed that when his medicine was administered according to his directions, it had no injurious effects and that 95 per cent of the patients were permanently cured. If they did return to drinking, he insisted that they were cured but that they drank because they choose to do so, not because they were still addicted.〔 Keeley published numerous articles in the popular press in addition to pamphlets promoting his therapy, and wrote ''The Morphine Eater, or From Bondage to Freedom'' (1881) and the Non-Heredity of Inebriety (1896). He died on February 21, 1900 in Los Angeles, California. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leslie Keeley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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