Word: quack
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...case anyone ever questioned the American Medical Association's power to quell a quack completely, the Association's Journal last week detailed its handling of Norman Baker. He flourished at Muscatine, Iowa, in a region of many unorthodox Corn Belt medical ideas.* Originally the man was a die-&-tool maker, then a builder of calliopes. Somehow he got into merchandising, sold radios, storage batteries, flour, coffee, canned fruits, silverware, brooms, alarm clocks, overcoats, mattresses, motor car tires, typewriters, paints...
...advertiser had a hocus-pocus "cure" for varicose veins. That led enterprising Mr. Baker into the "cancer-cure" business. Receipts from using the "cures" of two other quacks-Harry M. Hoxsey of Muscatine and Charles O. Ozias of Kansas City-started with $1,380 for October 1929. reached $75,232 for June 1930. But the A. M. A.'s weekly Journal (for doctors) and monthly Hygeia (for everybody) began flaying Quack Baker. His receipts dropped until last January they were only $7,008. He lost the license for his broadcasting station KTNT. Iowa enjoined him from practicing medicine without...
...jury of Iowa farmers and merchants agreed that it was no libel to call Norman Baker a quack, gave the A. M. A. another memento mori to wave at other charlatans...
...people know this. Their ignorance made him cry out to the New York Academy of Medicine: "Once they have an understanding of the nature of the disease, when it no longer seems the utterly mysterious thing that it does now, the people will no longer rush frantically from quack to quack, sacrificing the fortunes of the family to any one who promises a cure...
...merchants of Del Rio, Tex., chuckled and rubbed their hands together. Kansas politicians shook with apprehension. Quack-baiting Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association's Journal cursed through his teeth. Goat-bearded, goat-gland-grafting Dr. John Richard Brinkley was at it again last week...