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  Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam

  by Pope Brock

  In 1917, after years of selling worthless patent remedies throughout the Southeast, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen young con man–arrived in the tiny town of Milford, Kansas. He set up a medical practice and introduced an outlandish surgical method using goat glands to restore the fading virility of local farmers. It was all nonsense, of course, but thousands of paying customers quickly turned “Dr.”... (more)