Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago a petty issue-appointment of a doctor named Adrian Martens to the Flemish Academy of Medicine-cut through Belgian politics like a hot knife through lard. Patriotic War Veterans objected to Dr. Martens' appointment on the grounds that he was 1) a mediocre medical man, 2) one who had worked during the War to split the Flemish districts from the rest of Belgium and set them up as an autonomous State. Soon the Flemish-Walloon issue had all Belgium so divided that King Leopold dissolved Parliament and ordered a new election...
Last week the doctor proudly pulled up all the beads, and gave Mrs. Gregory a juicy steak with no wires attached. "I can swallow better now than I have ever been able to,"; cried joyful Agnes Gregory as she chewed on the first steak she ever ate. With periodical bead-treatments and swallows of solid food, the lining of Mrs.Gregory's gullet should stay where it belongs...
...grain of wheat, which he propelled down Mrs. Gregory's throat with a small steel spring. The next bead was a little larger. After half a dozen graduated beads had gone down the wire, and forced a narrow opening in Mrs. Gregory's food passage, the doctor pulled them all up. For ten days he repeated the process, using larger beads each time, until finally Mrs. Gregory could gulp down a bead the size of a hickory...
John Richard Brinkley is a doctor by virtue of a degree from the defunct Eclectic Medical University in Kansas City, whence he was graduated 25 years ago. In 1917 he began furnishing impotent men with goat glands, and by 1933 when he discontinued the treatment (for simpler methods) he had performed 5,000 "rejuvenating" operations. Since 1933 he has treated his hopeful patients with the blue fluid which Dr. Fishbein was so bearish about and with simple prostate operations. For a series of treatments with ⅓-ounce ampules of the drug, Dr. Brinkley often charges $250. Operations sometimes cost...
...watts. (Since Cincinnati's station WLW lost its experimental license to use 500,000 watts, no U. S. station is permitted over 50,000.) Every night powerful XERA blares out boosts not only for Brinkley's treatments but for hair dye, life insurance, oranges, perfume and "doctor's book." The latter sells for $1, complete with pictures of Dr. Brinkley, his wife Minnie Telitha, their white-stucco home, six-story brick hospital and son "Johnnie Boy." Since XERA drowns out every station in the neighborhood, rates for XERA-time run as high as $1,700 an hour...