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...system is called the Duke-Fingard Treatment. "Duke" stands for a Fingard "uncle from Germany" whom David Fingrard calls Rudolph Duke, whom high-placed English backers of the treatment call J. J. Duke. The man supposedly died in Germany many years ago. Once he lived in Winnipeg where, says David Fingard, he developed the machine and drugs, and confided them to David, smart young New Jersey-born son of a Winnipeg coal dealer. The young man neglected to exploit the treatment for several years. First he tried his hand at insurance and stock brokering, grew baldish and portly during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fingard's Fix | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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