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...witness stand in the Del Rio, Tex. court house, stroked his goatee with a white, diamond-starred hand and announced:"I am the man who originated the goat gland operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth time was suing Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's publication Hygeia. Dr. Fishbein, who at the moment had his back turned on Plaintiff Brinkley, appeared unconcerned over Brinkley's demand for $250,000. Last year in Hygeia Dr. Fishbein described Brinkley as a "quack" and a "charlatan". Dr. Brinkley claimed that...
...When Dr. Fishbein took the stand he boldly repeated to an eager audience of former Brinkley patients and local high-school students that Brinkley was a "quack." He defined the word as "a person who makes extravagant or blatant claims as to his own ability in the field of science or medicine," pointed out that Brinkley had never submitted a description of his rejuvenating operations or drugs to a recognized scientific publication, declared that A. M. A. chemists had found Brinkley's prize rejuvenation medicine to consist of water, a dye (methylene blue) and a little hydrochloric acid, none...
After deliberating six hours, the Federal jury returned a verdict in favor of Dr. Fishbein. But no one believed for a moment that the adverse verdict would blight "Goat-gland" Brinkley's flourishing business...
...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 as much...
Last week Dr. Jerger journeyed to Washington to see how his case would look to Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold. Meanwhile, in Manhattan, he eased his mind: "Mark Twain told me that this was a land of free speech and liberty. Well, so it is, but Dr. Fishbein [Morris Fishbein, A. M. A. spokesman and Journal editor] is a dictator, a Hitler. I believe in organized medicine. Socialization is fatal. But the trouble here is too much concentrated power, power that will not stand for criticism. So I am going down to Washington and see what can be done...