example of quackery, Keeley is remembered as one of the first to treat alcoholism as a medical problem. The Keeley cure is defined in the American Illustrated Medical Dictionary in the 1938 edition as "a proprietary method of treatment for the alcohol and opium habits by means of gold chloride." Keeley was widely cited as a quack. A 1908 article in the Illinois Medical Journal stated that "Leslie Keeley was a common, ordinary quack with a useless remedy which made good by advertising and catching suckers." Publications Opium: Its Use, Abuse and Cure (1892) The Keeley Treatment (1892) The Non-Heredity Of Inebriety (1896) References Sources External links 1836 births 1900 deaths Physicians from Illinois American science writers Alcohol abuse counselors People from Potsdam, New York People from Dwight, Illinois People of Illinois in the American Civil War Rush Medical College alumni Union Army surgeons Writers from Illinois Writers from New York (state)