Word: hoxsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas Board of Medical Examiners won a substantial but incomplete victory over Harry M. Hoxsey, no M.D., who has attracted thousands of cancer victims to his clinic for treatments which, say medical experts, are useless or worse. District Judge Charles E. Long Jr. issued an injunction barring Hoxsey from 1) practicing medicine in Texas, 2) conducting a business known as the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic, and 3) collecting fees for services to clinic patients treated before May 1, 1957. Unfulfilled was the board's request that the court invalidate a lease agreement between Hoxsey and Dr. (of osteopathy) Harry Taylor...
...Five doctors of osteopathy, full-time employees of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinic in Dallas (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954) were suspended from practice for one year by court order after the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners complained that in associating with Hoxsey they had violated ethics by practicing with 1) a layman, and 2) one convicted of illegal practice at that...
...Pennsylvania State Senator John J. Haluska quit as president of the board at Miners' Hospital in Spangler, Pa., giving the medical staff a clear-cut victory in its fight to keep out the unorthodox Hoxsey treatment for cancer which Haluska championed (TIME...
...M.D.s at Miners' Hospital promptly declared that they would quit unless 1) Hoxsey was kept out of the county, 2) Haluska was fired as administrator. Cried Haluska: "There will be bloodshed, marches on the hospital. Labor is inflamed." A few days later the doctors charged in court that Haluska, for all his baiting, had quietly offered to clear out if they paid him $10,000. Whereupon the hospital board of trustees fired both Haluska and the hospital's entire medical staff (although the doctors were reinstated later). Last week, after a stormy court hearing, County Judge John Pentz...
Down in Dallas, Harry Hoxsey's golden days may be running out. Hoxsey has announced that he will continue to ship his tonic out of Texas despite the U.S. court injunction; can expect to face contempt-of-court charges. But Harry Hoxsey is undisturbed. Says he: "You couldn't run me out of here with a Gatling...