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Charlatan.(Brief article)(Book review)
In the nineteen-twenties and thirties, John R. Brinkley was one of the most famous, and richest, medical men in America, with advocates including Vice-President Charles Curtis. The basis of his empire was an impotence cure that entailed crudely transplanted goat testicles. In 1930, documenting forty-two deaths at Brinkley's surgery, the medical board of Kansas revoked his license. Brinkley responded with a campaign for governor and ...
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