Nostrums and Quackery Volume 2; Articles on the Nostrum Evil and Quackery Reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... of October 18, Lawhon wrote again, saying in part: "I fear that the first cold you contract this fall may settle on your lungs and then it would be too late for any one to give you treatment which would be of benefit." On October 25 Hattie at last succumbed to Lawhon's wiles. On that day she paid him $45. One month later Lawhon got out of her the remaining $50. For weeks the girl continued to come for treatment. Lawhon, finding he was unable to get any more money out of her, finally turned her over to assistants. They, too, at last turned her away. What was the famous treatment by which Lawhon promised to save this girl's life? Why it was the oxyolene inhalation fake, which never cured and never can cure consumption, and which has been exposed by the medical profession times without number. DR. W. M. LAWHON TO BE PROSECUTED FOR GETTING $112 ON PATIENT'S BANK BOOK Activity on the part of the city authorities yesterday for the first time made the quacks whom the Tribune is exposing feel the net of the law closing about them. Now they are beginning to realize they are in serious danger of going to prison. During the day two of the managers of fake "institutes" and one of the "doctors" there were fined an aggregate of $400 in the municipal court. Other prosecutions are in preparation. They will touch the owners of the "institutes," among others. Judge Fake administered the fines on the quack managers. The prosecution was under the direction of Dr. W. K. Murray of the Health Department, who showed that the men accused were operating waxwork shows forbidden by ordinance. The men fined are Dr. Lawhon and Joseph Higgins and L. R. Glasscoff, who were managers of "institutes" at 424 and 526 South State Street. Incide...