Word: licensees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominally he is James Empringham, 54, Doctor of Divinity, priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Last week he was accused of practicing medicine without a license, i.e. quackery. The evolution of his career has been as follows:
Aged 49, developed the Health Education Society, as an adjunct of the Episcopal Church Temperance Society. Wrote a book, Intestinal Gardening. Opened a Health Education Society Clinic in Manhattan, to cure alcoholism, drug addiction, dietary ills. He hired a medical staff, advertised for patients, earned $500 a month. This vexed...
Last week New York police, looking to quiz him for practicing medicine without a license, learned that he was beyond their reach at Fontana, Cal. He had written a letter from general delivery, Los Angeles : "I have lost my position. I have lost all my money. I do not expect...
In Illinois the maximum prison penalty is one year for administering medicine without a license, one year for representing oneself falsely as a graduate physician.
Although such forged documents enabled purchasers to start practicing in Illinois at once, the more clever ones pursued another method. Going to a neighboring State they would show the forged Illinois license and college diploma, ask for a license from that State, which would be issued perfunctorily. Soon they would...