Background
Leslie Enraught Keeley was born in 1832 in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. He was the son of Thomas H. Keeley, a physician, and Maria Enraught.
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Opium, Its Use, Abuse and Cure; Or From Bondage to Freedom: The Opium, Morphine and Kindred Habits; Their Origin, Nature and Extent; Together With the ... of Treatment to Be Adopted (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Opium, Its Use, Abuse and Cure; 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 thirty 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 observa tions have given me a more accurate and certain knowledge Of its nature and results. It is because the habit is so little understood, and the exist ing peed for the latest scientific and medical information con cerning 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 delu Sive and dangerous. 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.
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The Non-Heredity of Inebriety (Classic Reprint)
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Leslie Enraught Keeley
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Keeley took a degree in medicine at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1864.
Career
About 1864 Keeley joined the army as acting assistant surgeon, serving until the close of the Civil War. After the war he settled in Dwight, Illinois, where for many years he practiced medicine along conventional lines. He claims to have begun his treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction in 1879. In the following year he published a small pamphlet on the opium habit and its treatment. Little was heard from him until he brought out in 1890 a pamphlet entitled A Popular Treatise on Drunkenness and the Opium Habit, and Their Successful Treatment with the Double Chloride of Gold, the Only Cure. At the same time he opened his original sanitarium at Dwight and after temporary suspension reopened it as the Leslie E. Keeley Company. There was a rapid extension of branches throughout the United States and in some foreign countries. Keeley retained a half interest in the enterprise and accumulated over a million dollars in less than ten years. In 1895 he claimed a total of 250, 000 cures. By that year there had been organized 359 chapters of the Keeley League with a total of 30, 000 members. All of the men members were cured patients but in the women's auxiliary leagues many of the members were temperance workers.
In 1891 the Keeley Company began the publication of a weekly paper, the Banner of Gold. Despite its charlatanistic aspects, the Keeley movement received the sanction of the church and temperance workers and was used in soldiers' homes, in one or more of the army posts, and among the Indians of the reservations. Keeley never sought to antagonize his profession and employed only regular graduate physicians. The cost of treatment was not exorbitant--twenty-five dollars a week with a minimum period of treatment of four weeks. Patients had rooms but were required to board out. They had free access to the best brands of liquors, but they "lost all desire after two days of treatment. " Keeley attributed his success wholly to the hypodermic injections given, which were chiefly of the double chloride of gold, and denied that suggestion played a role, alleging that only five percent. of his cures were followed by relapse.
He published several pamphlets upholding the view that drunkenness is a disease and not a vice. In 1896 he issued his work The Non-Heredity of Inebriety. The medical profession objected to his commercial methods and denied that the good results were due to gold, ascribing them in the main to suggestion. The sudden disrelish of the patient for his whiskey was attributed to injections of apomorphin and to injections of strychnia and other alkaloids. Relapses were said to be frequent. Toward 1900 Keeley's health failed and he moved to Los Angeles where he died of heart disease. At the time of his death he was under the care of mental-treatment cultists--a fact which points to his belief in suggestion. The Keeley institutes flourished after his death but suffered a decline, attributable probably to the fact that sanitarium treatment could give the same results without the disagreeable publicity of a Keeley cure.
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Keeley was known for devising the institutional cure of chronic alcoholism and drug addiction. He established the Leslie E. Keeley Company and by 1893 there were opened 92 Keeley Institutes in the USA, Canada, and Mexico and that number grew to over 200 and expanded to Europe. His sole major work as an author was "The Non-Heredity of Inebriety" (1896).
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Opium, Its Use, Abuse and Cure; Or From Bondage to Freedom: The Opium, Morphine and Kindred Habits; Their Origin, Nature and Extent; Together With the ... of Treatment to Be Adopted (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Opium, Its Use, Abuse and Cure; Or From Bond...)
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The Keeley treatment : a statement of important facts for the information of the public : the only authorized institute in Nevada is at Carson City
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The Non-Heredity of Inebriety (Classic Reprint)
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Opium, Its Use, Abuse and Cure; Or From Bondage to Freedom: The Opium, Morphine and Kindred Habits; Their Origin, Nature and Extent; Together With the ... of Treatment to Be Adopted (Classic Reprint)
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February 21, 1900 (aged 68) -
Resting place
Oak Lawn Cemetery, Dwight, Illinois, United States -
Nationality
American