on a television screen it must look very much like a jar of chocolate syrup it's not it's cancer seven it's deadly it's kill before it'll kill again when it doesn't kill it maims it never cures a man who makes the sad one of money and he didn't care how he got it is what's generally referred to as a quack doctor but somehow that term just doesn't cover my feelings on the subject to me the term murder moment ago i told you the cancer cells i showed you will kill again this is what i mean there are thousands of medical charlatans in the united states i'm not going to be able to put them out of business neither has any other one man or any one governmental agency but by showing the many millions of dollars of tonight's confidential files just as much as i can about how the quacks operate i think we can hurt them and any discomfort i can inflict on the quacks will be a great pleasure indeed so let's see how they operate in the first place the crack has no problem and the victims all they have to do is find a person who is sick and isn't too well informed or in sickness and in health people tend to act pretty much like people the first rule of conduct self preservation doesn't represent just one trip to the drugstore she's been trying to trade or sell for a long time or she's got a lump on her throat it could be a swollen tonsil one snow that white it could be cancer cause i'm not a doctor but then neither is she it's tough for people to learn that there's no royal road in medicine you can't guess your way out of a sick  she went to a doctor once quite a while ago but now she figures these pills are not meant her short cut maybe they are now she can relax for half an hour until it's time for the next  she thought she could relax there goes the door bell you might not get said but this gal considers herself an angel of mercy she heard a friend was sick and dropped everything to come over and see what could be done she wants to know all about it the same all soreness only now a little worse but this gal didn't come by just to warm up a bowl of soup for her sick friend she's got something better in min why waste time with regular doctors and drugstore medicine regular doctors wouldn't cure us they could she knows just amanda set things right i've got a machine that will diagnose and cure anything she used to have pains all in through here and up here and his machine is done wonders the doc travels all around this area but he happens to be in town now she'll take a write down why suffer any longer the doc doesn't have an office exactly at present he's located in a downtown hotel he moves around a lot sort of an itinerant hypocrisy as machine will travel the prospect of patients a little uneasy but their friend is reassuring and since she's come this far she may as well meet the doc and his magic machine the doctor here may never have gone to college but is that assignment i will challenge the best of johns hopkins thorough examination he'll get at the core of the trouble first a few questions about the patient's history and he doesn't even need a nurse or a notebook doesn't even have to wash his hands you now make the patient comfortable and then they'll get down to business this condition is nothing new to the doctor he's handled hundreds of cases just like of course he's never cured one but why bother the patient with little details like  she feels pretty noble she done our friend a great service if you're not just an absence of stuff a scope on monitors and other medical paraphernalia don't lot of upset you the stock doesn't go in for he's got something better  he doesn't even have to wonder at the machine or find out what's wrong the modern counterpart of the ancient medicine he's traded in his bores to the magic wand for an electrical appliance on a stock in trade is still ignorance and superstition the twentieth century which dr talks in terms of atomic range and supersonic vibrations the diagnosis is done with squeaks it takes a while that's got to manipulate the knobs and get to know just right if a patient look closely to see that the knobs are connected to nothing except the back of the bar but she's too busy being cured the heart of the machine however is hooked up it works on the same principle as a phonograph player in fact until a doctor ingenuity turned it into a super on a pure it was a phonograph  warming up now and she feel what good is a super on a machine without a super on a chart i had divided the square root of the illness by the high part news of the patients bankroll and the first thing in no you're a rich man the doctor has a long portable drugstore too and he operates on a pretty comfortable margin of profit this little man is not harmless he's deadly because while his machine is pills may not do the patient any injury he will prevent it from placing herself in the hands of a competent licensed doctor and of arresting her trouble before it reaches the acute stage more mumbo jumbo the pills are treated atomically by colored christmas tree there's no way of telling how many of these practitioners without portfolio or on the loose preying on the sick in the afraid tha to catch up with mainly because their patients will cooperate with the authorities until it's too late but they could and should be wiped out you'll find out later tonight that the pills some of these quacks hand out and maimed and even kill she feels better already she thinks payment in cash the doc may not be around the first of next month and that's just the beginning she'll be back until she runs out of money or runs out of time the machine you saw in the film couldn't hurt anyone pills were shot with maybe a little seaweed or suchlike makes them perfectly harmless but the quack wasn't harmless he could have caused the woman's death suppose a lump on her throat work cancer the period during which she was under treatment by the quack could well have been the critical stage of her disease the time when it would have still been possible for competent physicians to save a life you might call it death by default they have your name please grant lak and your age please thirty four year occupation food and drug inspector for the state of california the other job involves putting medical quacks and charlatans like the one we saw in the film just now into jail is that right yes it does at least we arrest them in the course put them in jail what statute on legal authority governs the violations of this kind the health and safety code of the state of california and what kind of penalties does it provide for the type of sense we saw in the film in the case of a felony such  attempting grand attempted grand theft or conspiracy it's a felony offense which is punishable by the panel coat a person may get from one to five years in the state penitentiary and what happens in cases where the victims of physically injured by the quick treatment in such a case is that the courts may impose a prison sentence however many of these cases end up as a misdemeanor the actual physical damage to the individual has nothing to do many times with the stiffness of the sentence other similar codes in other states yes there are and where is the medical charlotte most prevalent in this country are most prevalent wherever in whatever state there are retired or elderly people it quacks seem to follow such elderly people like as easy marks and yes you have some pictures that you brought with the grand i'd like to have you explain them yes to this particular picture here as the picture of a young woman who used the black xterm cancer sav this caused an ulcer ration on the skin as a result of the croton oil the contained in the sap the second picture here of the man in which the same s was used on his upper lip you can see the crater that was left the quack in this case told the party that he probably had a cancer of the lower part of the brain or at the back of the neck kansas have resulted in death yes in several instances and what happened to the man who is responsible for these deaths crime case are ten months in jail and he's out free today what's the average penalty imposed by the courts on quacks like this it is a simple misdemeanor first make it as little as twenty five dollars fine or maybe see six months in jail but what you're saying is that you're not usually able to get them behind bars are you that's correct and answer a question for me what's the penalty under the law for mixing hamburger with horsemeat it's a felony offense punishable one to three years in the state penitentiary and up to five thousand dollars fine yet most quacks are men who are potential killers and they get off with a fine or just a probation yes they're charged with a misdemeanor in most cases they certainly collected a mountain of evidence against that one man was responsible for the pictures you show yes and it was an easy most of the people that we talked to were extremely reluctant to even give us a statement they were entirely uncooperative or what do you feel that your department and other pure food and drug departments across the country need the most and the fight against the medical quack first of all i think trying person now is the number one requisite we have only thirty three such person now in  generally true that other states are shorthanded yes i'm going to be true and what else do you think you need in the fight well i think one of the prime needs is the cooperation mine the public to channel certain information to our office or to the agency i see as many different types of quack operations as there are quacks mr league has brought some of the devices and the drugs that his offices cons confiscated i'd like you to see them now mr thought this is one of the simpler electrical devices which the seeds in recent years the operator in this case would merely dial a particular illness which he is treating he would then it would then cause the plate here to light up resulting in him dispensing a combination of corn starch sugar pills and what not the other words you take one of the sugar pills and you can cure sexual impotency sinus tooth decay fatigue gas and heartburn all is no question about it and what is this what turn tubes creating ozone gas not only does it create ozone but it produces oxides of nitrogen which is ten times more toxic than carbon monoxide an estimated half million dollars worth of these devices were sold all over the united states as a cure for heart disease kids kidney elements high blood pressure and many other diseases so turn it off before we both might be a good idea is here we have a simple device which was known as the electronically active steel ball bearings this device was supposed to be energized with eighty one thousand volts of electricity the vendor represented to a navy chief wife in san diego that he could permanently arrest any pain that she might have by merely passing us over the party the person's body he was prosecuted in san diego municipal court and was given thirty days in the county jail next we have a case of the magic spike this device was manufactured back in illinois thousands of these devices were sold all over the united states it is supposed to be radioactive the patient in this case would merely place it on their body adjacent to the ailing part and the radioactivity coming off of this too was supposed to cure all types of things incidentally this all for from three hundred dollars to twenty three hundred dollars depending upon the size model that you want to follow this converted table model radio that you see here as long as the collapsed many hundreds of these were sold in the northern california area to take patients suffering from such diseases as cancer kidney elements would merely turn the machine on and then would place this p to the affected area in the body the manufacturer of the device and the sales agent were charged with a conspiracy how however this penalty was later reduced to a misdemeanor the salesman paid a two hundred dollar fine and the manufacturer got off scot free and what is next we have a we might call a highball  that asked radioactively so this device was attempted to be sold in southern california for ten thousand dollars it was supposed to contain approximately eight thousand dollars worth of radium alone actual analysis by a laboratory show that it contained a dollar thirty cents worth of radium a person suffering from such illnesses as heart disease kidney ailments high blood pressure would merrily drink six to eight glasses of this water a day and take care of such elements was positive the two distributors in this area that were prosecuted were charged with a conspiracy to falsely advertise a device they were granted three years probation in san diego superior court and this was manufactured i say in new york city yes and  i want to thank you very much for your cooperation tonight and i hope we are able do some good thank you mis