Medicine: Goat Glands & Sunshine

"We want to broadcast sunshine. Give Dr. Brinkley your medical problems. He will tell you the truth even if it makes you mad. I discharge my obligation to society when I urge you to have an examination every six months. Ninety-nine out of 100 won't, but I'm after that hundredth. Before you have your prostate gland removed send 25^ to the Brinkley Hospital for booklets."

The merchants of Del Rio, Tex., chuckled and rubbed their hands together. Kansas politicians shook with apprehension. Quack-baiting Editor Morris Fishbein of...

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