Word: quacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still pursued with vigor is the crackdown on quack remedies, now under the Department of Investigation. This office does original investigations, cooperates with federal watchdog agencies, and often provides the evidence to get convictions...
...Roguish World of Dr. Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. A sparkling biography of the quack who became a millionaire with his radio-advertised promise that old men, through goat-gland implants, could become potent old menaces...
...Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. The biography of the greatest medical quack ever to barter colored water for cash tells a wild but true story in an appropriately cornball style...
...Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. The biography of the greatest medical quack ever to barter colored water for cash tells a wild, but true, story in an appropriately cornball style...
...that White's figure is low. John R. Brinkley, a small, dapper, goateed North Carolinian, who seemed certain that society rests upon a thick substratum of cement-heads, combined elements of the demagogue and the religious faker, but above all he was a medical quack-perhaps the greatest quack ever to barter colored water for cash. Author Carson tells the story in a slapdash, cornball style that suits his subject well...