HH Holmes Part 3 , Chicago’s World’s Fair, Sorry, Fully Booked!
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in 1879, a Dr. Leslie Keeley announce that he had found a cure for alcoholism, but Keeley treated alcoholism as a disease rather than an addiction or dependence, and according...
show morein order to rid yourself of the alcohol disease all you needed to do was book into the institute and treatment would begin with was four injections of bi chloride of gold four times a day as well as other tonics,
the patients were placed in hotels, or local houses that also offered a spa like experience, and after 4 weeks the patient would be released a new person so to speak,
it is thought the injections contained gold salts and vegetable oils and even ammonia,
but Keeley always kept the ingredients of the injections a secret, and close to his chest
and because of this his miracle cure was always met with scrutiny from the medical community who claimed it was a too good to believe that a cure for alcoholism could be administered and seen through to competition in only four weeks
nevertheless, Keeley's business flourished, for every patient he cured he would then employ them to go out and promote the miracle cure, and Keeley's slogan spoke for itself which was
"Drunkenness is a disease and I can cure it."
one man who was drawn to the idea of the gold cure was Benjamin , HH Holmes right hand man.
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