Word: keeley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keeley Institute advertisement: "Hundreds of ladies have taken the Keeley Treatment for Liquor. They have complete privacy ... the exact degree of privacy which they desire. All lady patients are treated in their own rooms, a physician and nurse visiting them for that purpose. Every courtesy and aid is extended to them by the physicians, attendants and nurses . . . and every effort made to make their visit as enjoyable as possible...
...Pantages' killing, if she was drunk as charged, strange. For decades women have been tippling as heavily as men. and in great numbers. In England and Wales, for example, as far back as the beginning of this century two women died of alcoholism to every three men. The Keeley Institute at Dwight, Ill., which was in the news last week because it is enlarging its inebriety cure facilities, has had women patients since the late Leslie E. Keeley founded it a half century ago.* The "Keeley Cure" usually requires four weeks. The charge is $150, plus board & lodgings. Last year...
BURLESQUE-A princess of the two-a-day practices a Keeley cure on her comedian husband (TIME, Sept...
...Keeley had had a formal medical education at Rush Medical College (now University of Chicago Medical School) and practiced as an Army surgeon for a time. Later the Chicago & Alton R. R. employed him as official surgeon. That was in the period when the Women's Christian Temperance Union made Ten Nights in a Bar Room a gospel of propriety, when the late Carrie Nation and her harridans heaved hatchets through expensive back-bar mirrors and at good mahogany fixtures. On that temperance agitation Keeley rode. Dwight, Ill., became the "Mecca of Liberty," the "Drunkard's Divorce Court...
...real benefit that Keeley gave his patients was rest, nourishing food and rigorous physical hygiene. He made the drunkard take a bath every third day and change his underwear every four or five days. They were "cured" in a month, so happily and so numerously that they formed a "Grand Army of American Drunkards...