John Romulus Brinkley’s Goat Testicle Surgery Scam

John Romulus Brinkley, a quack doctor from Kansas, sold a fraudulent cure for male impotence by surgically implanting goat testicles into victims' scrotums and sewing the incisions shut. Between 1930 and 1941, he faced over a dozen lawsuits for wrongful death.

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