Medicine: Fingard's Fix

In London last week the British Government was not sure whether or not an imposing, glib U. S.-Canadian Jew with a machine for treating respiratory diseases was a medical knave or not. To be on the safe side Sir John Simon, head of the British Home Office, ordered David Fingard to get out of England by Jan. 15. Unless King George VI interfered, that last week seemed likely to happen. But the King's interference was not beyond the possibilities of David Fingard's career.

His activity in England, against the wishes of potent physicians,...

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