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Elsie May Keene went around to the office of Arvid Lovgren, complained to him of pains in her throat. Naturopath Lovgren took her blood pressure, told her that her heartbeat was too fast, promptly administered a "chiropractic adjustment" with a vibrator. "But how will that stop the pains in my throat?" she asked. Lovgren gave her pills, prescribed a diet, then fitted what he called an electrical heat-ray machine around her neck. It began to burn on the left side. He said that was where the infection was, but he treated the burn with Unguentine and charged only...
...Twirling Dials, $40. The tariff was stiffer in Bryan, where Mrs. Keene complained of headache and stomachache. There, Naturopath Charles Moore told her she still had diphtheria toxins in her throat from a childhood attack, that she also had colitis; her spleen, pancreas and liver were not working right; she was anemic and her pulse was too slow. He sold her special foods for $9, and for the examination (done by twiddling the dials of a machine that looked like a short-wave radio) he charged...
...Nervy Massage, $2. Though Mrs. Keene was the star investigator, other equally healthy agents had called on all the naturopaths picked for investigation and subjected themselves to their treatments. A woman who complained of stomach pains to Naturopath R. W. Frydenlund in Dallas reported that he looked into her eyes with a magnifying glass, promptly diagnosed her trouble as "having eye muscles too far apart." He gave her a red-and-black-striped stick, told her to stare at it cross-eyed for 15 minutes a day. Charge: $5. In Weslaco, "Patient" Ben Laney told Naturopath F. G. Schaus that...
...Harry Hoxsey set up a cancer clinic in a small building in Dallas and got a naturopath's license. Despite several lawsuits, he was soon doing well enough to move to plusher quarters. He hired two assistants (neither of them M.D.s), within ten years boosted his annual net income to $100,000. On the side he plunged into oil and real estate, bought a 588-acre ranch...
...doctor whom Hitler appointed to be Führer of National Socialist Health turned out to be a naturopath. He licensed faith healers and all manner of quacks. Last year this Führer, Dr. Gerhard Wagner, died. His successor is not, as strongly rumored in U. S. medical circles, a veterinarian, but is in fact a well-trained pediatrician named Leonardo Conti, son of Hitler's solidly buxom "Führerin of Midwives...