Keeley Institute

After Keeley's death the institute began a slow decline but remained in operation under John R. Oughton, and, later, his son.

A subheadline described the story as Bly’s account of "A Week’s Experience and Odd Talks with the Queer Little Family of Hopeful Inebriates.

"[7] Keeley Institute director Oughton, Jr. said in a 1939 Time magazine article that the treatment program had cured "17,000 drunken doctors".

[7] A ceremony which unveiled a commemorative plaque bearing the likenesses of Keeley, Oughton and Judd attracted 10,000 people.

[3] The plaque, designed by Florence Gray, a student of Lorado Taft, is still on the grounds, complete with a time capsule.

[8] New patients who arrived at the Dwight institute were introduced into an open, informal environment where they were first offered as much alcohol as they could imbibe.

[8] Maud Faulkner would take her husband Murry to the Keeley Institute located near Memphis whenever his drinking became unbearable.

Walnut Lodge Hospital has no specific Gold cures, or new mysterious drugs, to produce permanent restoration in a few weeks.

[8]Many individuals and groups, especially those within the mainstream medical profession, attempted to analyze the Keeley Cure for its ingredients and reports varied widely as to their identity.

Famed journalist Nellie Bly exposed the fraudulent claim that the Keeley cure had a 95% efficacy rate.

She went undercover for a week, posing as an absinthe addict, to receive treatment in the Keeley facility in White Plains, NY.

Roger Chilcote (Lewis Stone) the patriarch of an old Southern family, promises his daughter he will reform after she mentions the Keeley Institute as a last resort, a prospect that he finds horrifyingly shameful.

In the Murdoch Mysteries season 2 episode "Murdoch.com", Inspector Thomas Brackenreid takes injections of the Keeley Gold Cure and experiences aggressive personality changes due to its contents of strychnine and cocaine.

[14] The novel Opium and Absinthe: A Novel (2020) by Lydia Kang has a character visit the Keeley Institute in White Plains, New York, for an opiate addiction.

In the play Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1955) by Tennessee Williams, the character Doctor Baugh makes reference to "the Keeley cure" - a treatment for heavy drinkers used back in his day.