Professor says he will start tests on gold salts treatment for autism (extract)

From Volume 3 Number 12

LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY: A University of Kentucky chemist says he will do tests to see if gold salts might help children with autism - two weeks after a newspaper column reported that one of the first children ever diagnosed as autistic seemed to improve markedly after that treatment.
       "You follow your nose in research, and when I saw that I thought, yes, this is a possibility," said Dr Boyd Haley, a professor and former chemistry department chairman at the university.
       Dr Haley said his interest was piqued by columns describing Donald T., one of the first people ever to be diagnosed with autism. Donald's brother - interviewed in the small Mississippi town where they grew up and still live - told of his "miraculous response" to gold-salts treatment for a crippling attack of juvenile arthritis. He was given injections of the salts over a two- to three-month period at the Campbell Clinic in Memphis at the age of 12 in 1947. The arthritis cleared up, and so did the "extreme nervousness" and excitability that had afflicted him, his brother said. He also became more social. He went on to college, where he was invited to join a fraternity; worked as a bank teller; and now, in retirement, pursues his love of golf and travels the world … 

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