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...Quack Coffee, now 67 years old, has been "practicing" for 44 years. The Keokuk (Iowa) College of Physicians & Surgeons gave him his diploma in 1881. He was licensed to practice medicine in 1897, 29 years ago. His first "game" was the curing of eye diseases by mail. At Des Moines, he built himself a $100,000 stone home with turrets, porte-cochère and all conveniences. This established business Samuel Hopkins Adams wrecked for him by the "Great American Fraud" articles in Collier's of 1905-07. Exposer Adams called Quack Coffee "an Eminent Thief and Pre-eminent...
Lottie's vanity in wearing tight shoes, and the presence in town of a "Westopractor," suave quack, supply Mrs. Bascomb with tools for a Lady Macbethian coup. She engineers the perfectly healthy, stupid girl into bed with "spine trouble." Hypochondria sets in. Lottie is bedridden...
Colonel Carmi A. Thompson, suave among politicians, even more suave among business men, has become an oracle in the Philippines in less than a fortnight. Filipinos and Moros, little brown senators and big brown generals were curious to hear the personal representative of President Coolidge. Is he a meddlesome quack or is he a saintly surgeon come to mend their wounds...
...learn how extensive Chicago quack operations were, the Tribune editors picked out a husky reporter, one F . . . W . . ., 30 years old, 220 lb in weight, 6 ft. 1 in. in height; had him examined by such highly reputed physicians as Dr. Louis E. Schmidt and Dr. Eugene Laurence Hartigan. They tapped him, sounded him, made Wassermann tests, pronounced him "an exceptionally healthy young man." Not so the charlatans. His reports on their personalities, their diagnoses and their cures he made unabashedly, and the Tribune bravely dealt with seven of them last week...
...intimately connected with government prosecution for using the mails to defraud against "The Boston Medical Institute" and "The Belleview* Medical Institute" of Chicago. These were one and the same firm, using the same office suite but with entrances on different streets to divert suspicion, an oldtime quack stunt. Old Doc Embry uses the same method?"Dr. Embry" on the door of a squalid office for Negroes, "The Parker Health Institute" on a communicating office door for whites. His gyp game is to thrill and mystify the patient by the intimated cure-all powers of the Xray. His staff found...