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Word: sanipractor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visits to home-town doctors in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, her husband took her to Spokane to see Otis G. Carroll, 79, a practitioner of 43 years' experience. Though Paul Hull, a construction worker, thought Carroll was an M.D., he is actually a licensed drugless-healer -a "sanipractor." At his first examination (fee, $50), Carroll took a drop of blood from Doris Hull's ear, put it in his "radionic" device, twirled some knobs, concluded that he got a vibration at a dial reading of 42. To him, this indicated some form of tuberculosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sanipractor | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

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