Evening Star Newspaper, October 11, 1931, Page 13

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D, (, OCTOBER 11, THE STAR FILES P. O. STATEMENT| Ofrculation of Past Six Months. Statement of the ownership, management, circulation, etc., of Star, published daily, and The 1931—PART ONE. to the medical lore of China as a-back- ground for'* their Mnnhlnf&r as they e of the matism and dropsy.” This was accom- P! y the “electricity” in the plates, “by ridding the blood of uric acld which forms in the stomach by eating |- | the food that disagrees u\;lc‘h the fm{fl; s ermen Ploba. which is commonly called tndi- of hot water three times a day. guaranteed to be tasteless, once turned to the medical ph Cure for Eye Diseases. red men. One Chinese “doctor” was A “doctor” in Madrid, “decorated with | diagnosing and tresting diseases by the cross of military ‘service for pro-| mafl for $35 & month. ‘Test letters fessional excellence,” advertised “a claims to Tt was QUACK DOCTORS You Can Afford a New Sunday Star, published g | ich is ?;mnyhéhz acid then goes through | the kidneys and filters into the blocd Post Dffice Department Finds| Cures Claimed for All Human Ailments. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. J The elixir of life, alchemist’s secret potion, the c ring and the miracle-working necklace still are pop- ular with the American pecpl During the past few months the Post Office Department, after investigat advertisements, has put the vendo; many of these out of business, at least so far as use of the mails is concernel by the iscuance of fraud orders. But| the mail-order doctor, boundless in his | claims and also in his expressed con- tempt for the.practicing physician, is & hydra-headed monster, and the legal sword of the Government only can chop off & few heads at a tim The usual procedure is for a post office inspector to write to one of these advertisers, giving the symptoms of some chronjc or incurable disease, or some disease that never existed, such as poliomylitis of the liver. “When the remedy is received it is submitted to the proper Government scientific laboratory for analysis and tests: to the Bureau of Standards if it is a mechanical contrivance, or to the Chemical Service of the Department of Agriculture or Public Health Service if the claims regarding the constituents of the remedy Wre in questicn. Rarely Fight Back. Rarely do the mail-order doctors fight back. It is easier to drop out of business for a time and then reappear under some other alias—se that many of the perpetual crop of fakers are old acquaintances of the post office inspec- | tors. That the business is extremely profitable is shown by the vast sums | which, the investigations disclose, are | spent for advertising, usually in maga- zines of the type which circulate among ignorant people. Most of the claims made for the | medicines are ridiculous, but appar- ently the more sweeping and bold the assertions the better the market. A “professor” in Atlanta was selling by mail for §5 two pieces of zinc cut in the shape of heels. They were ordi- nary sheet ginc, cut out with his shears as the orders came in by the tinner across the street from the “professor’s” office. The United States Bureau of Standards found that they had no prop- erties whatsoever not possessed by any Pplece of zinc. the Many Cures Claimed. But the “professor” advertised they were guaranteed to cure-hargening of the arteries, high blood pressure, en- largement of the heart, kidney trouble, hardening of the prostate gland, rheu Tomorrow we offer many specials in this populer BIRTH®RS DAY SALE two are illus- teated . .08 score more are availanle to those who take advantage of the ANNIVE SARY REDU( TION Re- member. we of- fer savings on worthwhile jew- No_sou- Look for the e GoLn Sehwariz CLOCK On 7th st Tow TERMS Waekly or Monthly | ter from Uncle Sam to this effect. and becomes a very fine crystal acid which travels with ‘the blood and be- comes dissipated by heat only. This required heat now is produced by = composition of metals that acts on the human electricity as a galvanic battery and makes the human electricity faster and heats the blood about 2 degrees, which dissolves the acid, which passes through the blood by .the quick action of your eleetricity into the plate which is worn an the heel of your shoe or on the kidney. The metals receive the acid on them, and must be cleaned off by the use of vinegar once every day.” Cure for Tuberculosis. The discoverer of & sure-fire tuber- ulosls cure, who warned his patients against exposing themselves to fresh | air and sunlight, the post office inspec- | tors found, “had spent the years imme- diately preceding his alleged discovery variously in prison, working in a res- taurant, driving an express wagon, as grader of lumber and as a night watchman.” He had some testimonials from persons who said they had been cured by his treatment after the doc- tors had given them up. These were traced down. Two of the grateful indi- viduals, it was found, had been dead of | tuberculosis for some time; others were | in the employ of the quaci This man advertised “a home cure amid home surroundings,” and prom- ised noticeable improvement in 10 days and disappearance of all the character- istic symptoms of tuberculosis in 30 days. Presh air and sunshine, he said, were the only weapons of the medical profession against this disease, and were expensive, often, involving sanita- rium treatment. But “only 2 per cent recover in this way.” His treatment cost $10 a month. A Mexican in El Paso was offering to cure all sorts of diseases by mail. Tests of his pills. the same for every- thing, showed that they were only sugar. He also offerdd, courses in “practical and applied psychology and mental telepathy.” He specialized in tuberculosis, which, he proclaimed, *'was not difficult to cure with these medi- cines. not found in drug stores nor in the medicine market.” He would cure any case of tuberculosis for $45. Classified as Doctor. ‘When accused of practicing medicine without authority he said he was a graduate of a ‘*college of hypnotism,” and that the United States Government itself had testified to his qualification to practice medicine. e seems that he was classified as a “doc- tor” in the El Paso directory. During the war, when doctors were scarce, the United States Reclamation Service had sent letters to all classified as doctors in that territory, asking them for their rates for treatment of Federal employes So. he sald, the Governntent had recog- nized him as a physician A Chinaman in San Francisco of- fered to cure by mail any disease what- soever, regardless of distance, for $10 a week -unti] the cure was completed. He treated every case on its individual merits. A post office inspector asked | for treatment for “chronic appendicitis in the gall bladder.” Such a trifling Celebrating Our BIRTHDAY with an event featuring real JEWELRY SPECIALS Not Premiums Chas Schwartz & Son i irthday Sale olid Pla num French Hoop Wedding Rings $19.75 Set With 9 Beautiful Diamonds 50c Down—50c Weekly The Prices of Perfect Diamonds annot be reduced, but as a Birthday Feature we’ve Reduced the Terms 18 MONTHS Wear While 10-Piece Pyralin The newest design. TO PAY Paying Dupo.nt Ivorz Toilet Set Consist- He showed a let- | Sunday morn: of» August 24, 1912: Fleming Newbold, Washington, SWpsbe Qompany, Frank B. D, Kauffmann, Dunkirk, N. Y. securities, none. Net Paid Circulation given for service, etc.) (Signed) (Seal.) confusion of ergans didn’t bother Lhe’ doctor, He wrote, warning the lnspcc-‘ tor against surgery and eccepting the | case for his customary fee. He advertised that he “cured persons abandoned to die with no operation nor polsonous drugs, but with more than | 300 natural remedles, with herbs for | all chronic and nervous diseases and ' special herbs for cancers, blood poison and appendicitis.” Sidelines of Meat Market. One of the mest potent remedies sold through the mails, the post office in-! spectors found, “was born 150 years ago in the laboratory of a great physician | in Northern Westphalia who had given | his secret compound to the family of the advertiser.” It was a sure cure for | “cancer, tumors, goiter, all internal and external swellings, blood diseases, piles, | boils, gallstones and mastitis."” | ‘This “doctor” dispenses this remedy | as a sideline from his meat market. The remedy was made in Germany and | sent to Chicago. It was put up in| various forms to be taken, according to the particular pathological condition | being treated, “at the full moon, the new moon, or the first and.last quarter phases of the moon.” Analysis showed that the medicine was composed of the powdered leaves of the wood garlic. a common herb in North Germany, which had been in use for years among the German peas antry for the cure of all sorts of all- ments, especially cancer, although it had no therapeutic value whatscever, | Its only legitimate use is as a moth poison. It has been sold’ extensively in the United States as a powder for cleaning metals A necklace, consisting of 56 yellow beads, was advertised as a sure goiter | cure, giving & mild and constant gal- 2016 I4H-t.. N.W. - NORTH 8020 N N N N N N N N N N N N N N § N N N N N N N ON THIS— GOLDEN COMPLETE WITH TUBES It’s this year’s! Latest, newest superhetero- dyne. 9 tubes, multi- mu, pentode. Noyes and Newbold Noyes, trustees; Noyes and Ruth Noyes McDowell, trustees; Rudolph Max Kauffmand and Henry G. Hanford, trustees; Mary B. Adams and Henry G. Hanford, trustees; 8. H. Kauffmann and Henry G. Hanford, trustees; Frank B. Noyes, Theodore W. Noyes, Victor Kauffmann, Beale R. Howary Barbara K. Murray, Fleming Newbold, Grace Adams Hoyard, Philip ©. Jessie C. Kauffmann, Kauffmann, Miranda Noyes Pomeroy, Newbold Noyes, Theodore P. Noyes and George Adams Howard. All addresses Washington, D. C.. except Miranda Noyes Pomeroy, at Greenwich, Conn., and Barbara K. Murray, i Net Unpaid Circulation (made up of copies ‘Total Average Net Circulation.... Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day of October, 1931, —_—m——— | R L e T e Nl Nl PAYMENT %/////rmmnm\mm\\\\\\\\\ SUPER - HETERODYNE FULL SIZE LOWBQOY Washington, D. O., Tequired by act of Congress ditor, Theodore W. Noyes, Washington, D. C.; business manager, C.; publisher, The Evening Star Noyes, president, Washington, rs: Theodore W. Noyes and Frank B. L S Noyes, trustees; Frank B. Theodore \# Noyes, Theodore P, R, M. Kauffmann, Samuel H. Known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other Circulation Figures. Average number of coples of each issue of the publication sold%or distributed through the mails or otherwise to paid subscribers during the six months ended September 30, 1931: Average Net Circulation, ally. Sunday. 117,347 685 109,000 1,076 110,076 118,032 FLEMING NEWBOLD, Business Manager. ELMER F. YOUNT, Notary Public vaniec current during sleep. Even if this were true, there is no reason to believe that it would have any effeet on oiter. The Bureau of Standards tested he necklace for an electric current as slight as one-ten-millionth of an am- pere and couldn’t find it. Plant Unknown to Botanists. A “member of the Royal College of Physiclans” announced the discovery of “the missing Mink in the treatment of tuberculosis which renders the human ! blood absolute paison to the T. B. bug. It was obtained from the root of the “unchaloabo, a plant recently discov- ered in South Africa” It was a sure cure for “tuberculosis, both pulmonary and surgical, and during the past few years had cured completely many cases @iven up as hopeless by very clever physicians Not only does the remedy contain nothing of any value in the treatment of tuberculosis, but the plant itself is unknown to professional bot- anists. Still another mail-order doctor ad- vertised a cure for tuberculosis, “the discovery of which will be heralded by the civilized peoples of all parts of the earth as the greatest discovery of the age.” It was “guaranteed under the pure food and drug act.” The princi- pal constituent was creosote, an old- fashipned palliative remedy for tuber- culosls which long since has been abandoned. Perhaps the greatest fraud uncovered by the post office inspectors was that of the man who was selling bottles of water—just plain drinking water—as a sure cure for high blood pressure, rheu- matism and constipation. The patients were warned against taking it in large quantities—just a teaspoonful in a glass : LLLL LI ITI I I 2 'S LINCOLN 8524 '{{—é : P— S 2 O 2 D 2 R T 7 P 2 2 P VALUE R E L Y T L e A Ea 7 e E T P2 marvelous scientific creation that cures with ngruloun rapidity diseases of the eyes, however serious and chronic, v surgical operation. All trouble and pains disappear on the first appli- cation. Unrivaled for blenorrhagic and purulent granulations.” His claims were not so far-reaching, however, as that of the American eye specialist who sold “drops” made of honey, distilled water, egg yolks and butter. This marvelous remedy, he ad- vertised, “had completely restored the eyesight of persons 90 years old and totally blind.” Persons blind for 20 years had seen perfectly after the firsi application. Because of such results, | he asserted, it was “a’god-send to the | poor class of people who can't afford tr %o to an eye specialist’s office for treatment, only to be told that their cases are hopeless.” A “doctor” who spent $5.000 a year in advertising proclaimed “one of the most important and valuable discov- eries of modern selence—a sure cure for pyorrhea.” 1Tt consisted of a neutral coal tar ofl with some clove extract. “Its basic ingredients,” the vendor ad- vertised, “have been proclaimed by fhe United States Bureau of Standards to be three or four times more powerful as | a destrover of disease germs than phenol | when tested by the methods formulated | by the Government for determining | germicidal effects against pathogenic | organisms.” This news to the | Fiz2au of Standards. | Indian Medicine Passing. | ‘The old “American Indian medicines,” | it appears from the fraud orders, have | nearly disappeared from the market. Occasionally, however, some such potent | cure-all is advertised as “an old medi- cine used by the Sloux medicine man,” which was 46 per eent alcohol, the rest being sagar and water., | Among the fraud orders issued one against the vendor of “a concen trated food beverage which won the | grand prize and gold medal awarded as the result of & world-wide contest, held at Limoges, Prance, in 1929, the award being made by the department of the interior at Paris.” There was, of cure stomach ulcers, eyes, paralysis and , his advertising stated, according to “a Chinese system of medi- cine in vogue for more than 4,000 years,” the cardinal principle of which was that “the cavities of the ears are the :genlnu to the liver and kidneys and the cavities of the eyes to the five rlnclrl internal organs.” Diagnosls g’ this system, the advertiser stated. uired an nclelpumll skillful and ow. brought tubercul lepsy. PHe operated. well endowed fel ere are three ways of diagnosis: . Listening to the volce. This re- quires keen ears. “2. Examiration of the face and eyes and condition of the skin. This re- quires keen ey “3. Feeling pulse. This great powers of concentration 'x"m :gv ;fluf huwlever. wi [ perior e general run 'of pra tioners of this school that he ec?uuc‘&lu 8ll these things by mail. | requires NEW PANAMA CABINET ANNOUNCED BY ALFARO Andreve, Secretary of Government, and Geenzier Will Have For- eign Affairs Post. By the Associated Press. PANAMA CITY, October 10.—Presi- | dent Ricardo Alfaro yesterday ap. pointed the following cabinet, replac. ing that which resigned on Octobe; Guillermo ~ Andreve, government, Enrique Geentier, foreign affairs, Bario Vallarino, treasury. Jeptha Duncan, education. Tomaso Cervera, agriculture, secretary Count Bethlen Unde; Knife. 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