RARE Dr. Brinkley Book Goat Gland Quack Radio Medicine
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RARE Dr. Brinkley Book Goat Gland Quack Radio Medicine Description: Dr. Brinkley was famous for his patent medicines and an operation in which he implanted goat gonads into elderly gentlemen to improve virility. I don't know how that actually worked with the body's rejection mechanism. He was run out of 7 states before he installed a 1,000,000 watt AM radio station on a yacht in the Gulf of Mexico w he lived and sold quack medicines on the radio. I had to chuckle when I read this. Dr. Brinkley was one of the more colorful and controversial figures (understatement) in American history. In addition to his dubious goat gland operations, he ran for governor of Kansas three times as a third-party candidate during the 1930's, and fortunately for the state, lost every time. It has been claimed that between 1933 and 1938 Dr. Brinkley earned $12 million which he used to purchase diamonds, cars, aircraft, a yacht (which was reportedly rented to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for their honeymoon) and a large mansion by which time he had decided to move his medical practice once again. This time his destination was Little Rock, Arkansas, This Book is dated 1939 ...I'm not sure this Hospital ever really took off - I think this book is extremely RARE . Also interesting to note The United States banned cross-border links between U.S. radio studios
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