GOAT GLANDS COULDN'T DO EVERYTHING

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 275, 24 February 1941, Page 2

GOAT GLANDS COULDN'T DO EVERYTHING

"Dcc" Brinkiey claimed that his goat glands put new life into his senile patients. But they couldn't prevent senile decay in his business. To-day "Doc" was adjudged a bankrupt. "Doc's" career is one of the most fabulous of a fabulous American era. He claimed that goat glands were' the elixir of life. At the height of his career he was performing 75 goat gland operations a week. / The 75 patients who walked out of his surgery cach with new glands in his neck, meekly took it in the nock in other ways. Tliey contributed. £6000 a week to Brinkley's pocket. "Doc" advertised his gland treatment over a radio station in Kansas. When the U.S Government ruled him off the air, he moved across the border into Mexico, where he blazed away from the . world's strongest broadcasting stnti&&<£p His broadcast, in* addition to drowning every other radio programme north of the border, enticed hundreds of aged men to his hospital. In addition, his advertisements over the air sold hundreds of thousands of prescriptions. When the goat gland business started to show signs of weakening, "Doc" turned his attention to othpr wares. He had only varying success in selling oil burners. He managed to get rid of some gold mine shares, .and occasionally made a bit on the side by telling fortunes. But his heart was in the goat gland business. "Doc," his eyes resting reflectively on his herd of goats in Mexico, must have sighed often at the thought of all those glands going to waste. "Doc" still had plenty of goatglaiwls. Apparently, however, he could uo longer find the go^ts.