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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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