Former Civil War surgeon Leslie Keeley used his slogan “Alcoholism is a disease and I can cure it” to publicize hundreds of clinics using this substance. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this substance that formed the basis of the fraudulent Keeley Cure for alcoholism, which hundreds of thousands of patients consumed in the late 1800s.
ANSWER: gold [or bichloride of gold; or gold (III) chloride; or auric chloride; accept the Gold Cure]
[10m] The Keeley Cure was exposed by Nellie Bly, who earlier gained fame for writing Ten Days in a Mad-House, which detailed the terrible conditions at an asylum in this New York City location.
ANSWER: Blackwell’s Island [accept Roosevelt Island]
[10e] Though he was a quack, Keeley did support the theory of alcoholism as a disease, which the American Psychiatric Association also supports through the condition’s inclusion in this diagnostic tool now on its 5th edition.
ANSWER: DSM [or DSM-5; or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders]
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