Nostrums and quackery : articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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[1911]
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    tendril” would be rooted out and that the place where the cancer was would be healed over with healthy skin and all signs and danger of cancer would have disappeared forever. At its hearing the company submitted samples of the “rem- edies” by which these marvelous results were purported to 10 BE BEOPEiO-IIEIIf FiBII Doctor H. S. Wetzel To Operate Insti , tution Along Same Lines-To be I Ready by March Ist. The famous Curry Cancer Cure San Iti^ium Is to be reopened In the near fuuire. The site has been purchased by Dortor H. i?. Wetzel, a Dayton specialist, and he will take charge at once, beginnhig pfeparations’ for tlie reopening. TJie n^w firm will probably call themselves “The Cedar^Hill Sanitar- ium tompany” and the new institu- tion will be kDO«n as the Cedar Hill Sanitarium. Doctor Wetzel expects, iiowever. to engage In business, upon a larger scale than did the foprper owners of the institution arxJ will treat not only can6ers but also all skin diseases. At the same time, however, “Uncle ! Sam saw fit to close the Institution on account of transactions through the mails vviUch were alleged to have] been Illegal. Later the place was de- j seried as a sinitartum and the ov^eis! then sold it to Doctor WetzeK I ]>octor WeUel is one of ttie roost | prominent pliyslclans of Dayton and! Is well known In tlie medical profes- sion. He proposes to open in Lebanon an insUluiion which will not only be ' a credit to the commuriby. but also a benefit, ttnancihtlVj to tlio town. Leb- anon Ddpds every elUzen and buyer which (Vcan get, a&do all cities andj The Curry Cancer Cure was one of ttie most widely known Institutions in the country. Regardless of the fact that It w as severely crlt cised by many even to the extent of an article In such a magazine as CoUler’s Week- ly, the insti tut Ion cured manv cases of cancer and refused to treat all patients who seemed,to have neglect- ed the disease until It could not be cured. Many persrms left the Insti- tution thanking the pliyslclans and directors and willing to-pay-twice the price of the treatment for the results] that had been obtained. ^ towns, and the reopening of the sar>J- toll” ” Besides the hundreds of persons ‘'‘Institution will employ from ten to twenty-five persons who will also make they homes here. In addition to this, the advertising of the Instil u- tlon throughout the entire country will attract attention to the Village of Lebanon and tend to beosflt other large institution., and buslnesi-houscs' here. rhotogi-Eipliic reproduction (reduced) of a Lebanon (Ohio) news- jiaper article, calling attention to the change in nanu' of tlie (’nri’v fraud. This change occurred following tiie government's exposni-es of Curry’s concern. be brought about. They were analyzed in the Department of Agriculture and the findings of the department, which were transmitted to the postmaster general, were in part as