Word: mccann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obstructionist tactics of the American Medical Association are keeping 10,000,000 people from recovery." This was typical of the charges made a few weeks ago by Alfred W. McCann (known as "Medicine Man McCann") who advocated (TIME, Jan. 14) "lime starvation" treatment for tuberculosis of the lungs...
Implying that Mr. McCann was nothing more than a Russell Emulsion press agent, the Journal of the A. M. A. said: "A careful reading of McCann's series [in The Evening Mail, Manhattan] indicates that they are essentially a rewrite of the advertising matter and supplementary literature on the Russell products,†interspersed with picturesque denunciations of the medical profession. The medical profession is thoroughly familiar with the lime starvation theory and treatment. It has been weighed in the balance of therapeutic and clinical tests and found wanting . . . Mr. McCann has done what other sensational writers have done before...
Alfred W. McCann was for years medicine man of The New York Globe. Frank Munsey bought the Globe, sunk it into his Sun, and Mr. McCann joined The Mail. Before the first week of the New Year was up, he had picked a fight with the entire medical profession. His battlefield is tuberculosis of the lungs...
There exists a "lime starvation" treatment, which consists of getting organic lime into the blood. Mr. McCann asserts that the customary sanatorium treatment arrests only 22% of tuberculosis cases, taken at early stages, and treated under ideal conditions, whereas, for 12 years, the "lime starvation" cure has arrested an average of 68%, taken at serious stages, and treated while patients continued to do their regular work. Mr. McCann asserts that the suppression of this cure reveals "the abysmal inertia of the medical profession with respect to a disease so clumsily and inefficiently attacked...
...McCann concludes that the obstructionist tactics of the American Medical Association keep 10,000,000 American sufferers from hope of recovery. This is a statement that may be characterized as fantastic...