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Unprincipled charlatan
The figure to the left of the photo you can see the fish Dr. John R.Brinkli, one of the most famous Americans of the first half of the last century.
John in his youth had to work on traditional healers and swindlers trade "snake venom" and other drugs. Podnatorev charlatanism, in 1918, he gained his medical degree for $ 500 and started a private practice specializing in the treatment of problems with potency using transplantation ...
goat glands in the scrotum. The first operation was successfully operated on shared their joy with everyone he met (and later his son admitted to reporters that his father had been bribed). By "miracle worker" influx of wanting to regain virility. Several years later, his clinic has become world famous, she took daily to 500 patients, the operation cost of $ 750 were performed in pipeline mode. For the rich there was a special service - for $ 1,500 could be to choose a donor from the goat herd. Lzhedoktor bought the radio station «KFKB», the air is beginning to happen now obscurantism - interspersed with jazz, biblical preaching, ASTROPROGNOZ, French lessons and sessions of mass hypnosis constantly been calls to use the services of its clinics (the first in the history of radio advertising, among other things). The air itself Brinkley answered letters suffering, but only to those in the envelope which had invested $ 2. In 1931, Dr. sold «KFKB» for $ 90 000 and has opened a new radio station «XERA» in Mexico, eventually making it the most powerful in the world. In addition, the charlatan opened a pharmaceutical business, which lay in the fact that the common drugs sold as a miracle pill under the brand name "Brinkley" at exorbitant prices that brought him half a million a year.
Preachers compared Brinkley way of life and the life of Jesus Christ. Among his close friends were famous bankers, media moguls, Hollywood stars and members of the government. Italian Medical University of Pavia has welcomed distinguished guests a degree without any exam (Mussolini himself later announced that it canceled). He twice tried happiness in politics, running for the post of governor of Kansas, however, both times took only third place. By 1937 John Brinkley became the richest doctor in the United States, his fortune was estimated at 12 million dollars. But then his life has begun a black stripe - penalties for failure to pay taxes, death as a result of unsuccessful operations, lawsuits from patients and indignant accusations of fraud made by the bankrupt in 1941. This impact accustomed to life in a big way Brinkley was not able to endure, and a year later he died. At his funeral, one of the defrauded patients said: "Of course, he robbed me, but you can not imagine what an amazing person he was!»
The name "goat surgeon" forgotten, but his cause is alive and well, remember the idea and actively used, and even in Russia established the award named after John Brinkley for the most outrageous advertising.
John in his youth had to work on traditional healers and swindlers trade "snake venom" and other drugs. Podnatorev charlatanism, in 1918, he gained his medical degree for $ 500 and started a private practice specializing in the treatment of problems with potency using transplantation ...
goat glands in the scrotum. The first operation was successfully operated on shared their joy with everyone he met (and later his son admitted to reporters that his father had been bribed). By "miracle worker" influx of wanting to regain virility. Several years later, his clinic has become world famous, she took daily to 500 patients, the operation cost of $ 750 were performed in pipeline mode. For the rich there was a special service - for $ 1,500 could be to choose a donor from the goat herd. Lzhedoktor bought the radio station «KFKB», the air is beginning to happen now obscurantism - interspersed with jazz, biblical preaching, ASTROPROGNOZ, French lessons and sessions of mass hypnosis constantly been calls to use the services of its clinics (the first in the history of radio advertising, among other things). The air itself Brinkley answered letters suffering, but only to those in the envelope which had invested $ 2. In 1931, Dr. sold «KFKB» for $ 90 000 and has opened a new radio station «XERA» in Mexico, eventually making it the most powerful in the world. In addition, the charlatan opened a pharmaceutical business, which lay in the fact that the common drugs sold as a miracle pill under the brand name "Brinkley" at exorbitant prices that brought him half a million a year.
Preachers compared Brinkley way of life and the life of Jesus Christ. Among his close friends were famous bankers, media moguls, Hollywood stars and members of the government. Italian Medical University of Pavia has welcomed distinguished guests a degree without any exam (Mussolini himself later announced that it canceled). He twice tried happiness in politics, running for the post of governor of Kansas, however, both times took only third place. By 1937 John Brinkley became the richest doctor in the United States, his fortune was estimated at 12 million dollars. But then his life has begun a black stripe - penalties for failure to pay taxes, death as a result of unsuccessful operations, lawsuits from patients and indignant accusations of fraud made by the bankrupt in 1941. This impact accustomed to life in a big way Brinkley was not able to endure, and a year later he died. At his funeral, one of the defrauded patients said: "Of course, he robbed me, but you can not imagine what an amazing person he was!»
The name "goat surgeon" forgotten, but his cause is alive and well, remember the idea and actively used, and even in Russia established the award named after John Brinkley for the most outrageous advertising.
