Charlatan
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Charlatan
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In 1917, John R. Brinkley arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. Here he opened a medical practice and introduced an outlandish method of restoring fading manhood - using goat glands. Thousands of clients quickly turned "the doctor" into America's richest and most famous surgeon.
His fame attracted the attention of another great charlatan, Morris Fishbein, who vowed to put the country's "most daring and dangerous" fraudster out of business. But all his efforts seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights - he went into broadcasting and politics, with his campaigning methods still in use today. How did their cat-and-mouse game end? And was Brinkley really an inventive charlatan who crippled hundreds of patients, or a medical experimenter like Professor Preobrazhensky from Bulgakov's "Heart of a Dog"? In this book, Pope Brock reveals the secrets of one of the most notorious scams in American history.
His fame attracted the attention of another great charlatan, Morris Fishbein, who vowed to put the country's "most daring and dangerous" fraudster out of business. But all his efforts seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights - he went into broadcasting and politics, with his campaigning methods still in use today. How did their cat-and-mouse game end? And was Brinkley really an inventive charlatan who crippled hundreds of patients, or a medical experimenter like Professor Preobrazhensky from Bulgakov's "Heart of a Dog"? In this book, Pope Brock reveals the secrets of one of the most notorious scams in American history.
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