The Detroit times., 1911-06-14
expos
BY TIMES ARE
FUGIT|VES
Pack Their Apparatus, So Extensivc
Advertised in Detroit Papers 0theE
Than The Times, and Suddenly
Depart the City.
Their Diagnosis Of Healthy ColIeGo
Athletes Case Proves the
Doctors Undoing.
az .FINANcE..

Ii took a week of large space and
big black letters In newspapers thar.
were willing TO accept It's advertising
to announce the coming Of the Adj
yanced Medical Science Co. to De-
troit. but its departure was most sud-
zen. II was announced Wednesday
morning by little card on the ONCE
door. saying. Close Until Further
Notice.
A warrant was served on DR.
Thomas. the eminent specialist. and
his partner In quackery. "Dr. Witt
man the Great" Tuesday afternoon.
When Thomas found out there was
an officer waiting for him. he stepped
into a side room after his hat and
started down the stairs In big hurry.
but the officer, Max Gleiwitzer, In.
duced him to come back and bo
served
DIR. Whitman was not In tho ONCE.
but Thomas promised to have him
appear In court Wednesday morning.
After waiting for the doctors until
noon the officer went once more to|
the Advanced Medical Science ofFlcoo.
but was greeted by the notice or de-
parture.
Other tenants in the building told
The Times that the doctors had re-
moved their belongings In a trunk
early In the morning and that neither
had been seen since
When the doctors rented the ofices'
from the Kaufman Dyeing Co. they'
represented that they were brothers
and came from the south. They.
were not very communicative. how,
ever, and seemed to prefer to be left
alone.
They lived in the rooms occupied
for their Offices.
Following the failure of the doctors
to appear In court Wednesday morn
ing, a general order for their arrest
was issued and the police will make
an effort to bring them in before
they have chance to get away.
All OF the capital Of the Advanced
Medical Science Co. seems to have
been tied up In advertising.
The apparatus which was carried
away In the trunk included the won
derful diagraphoscope and the other
great inventions that were discussed
In their advertising. which The Times
would not accept, with such elaborate
detail
The Office furnishings. which made
a brave show, were put In by the Peo-
pies Quitting Co.
The methods OF treatment used By
the Advanced Medical Science ofdceo
were fully as faky as the diagnosis
which described Tuesday.
! When the husky Times patient, who
is q college student and an athletes
| without symptom Of ill-health. went
over there, he was taken I'm to DR..
4 Thnraa0 t.A - -
trio current applied to his stomach
and back for the purpose OF killing
the deadly micro-organism that made
its lair In that organ, as the doctor
said, but which did not.
I To make the fake realistic, the eIec-
tricity was run through a glass tube
filed with liquid that famed when
the current was turned on. There was
also a sparkling device and the spark
cracked In a manner that would BE-
sure TO make the guilible patient
jump. There is a certain exhilirating
effect obtained from the application Of
a weak electric current OF this sort
that makes q patient feel better at
once DR." Thomas also gave the
patient bottle full of some red liquid
that smelled very much like glycothy-
molin, harmless disinfectant. and q
box OF pills that looked rather unin-
viting.
This was all there was TO the treat
ment. but one important feature must
not be omitted. "Dr." Whitman re-
ceived IS in real money and duly gave
receipt therefor. Our patient was
lucky to get out OF II that easy. too.
One man from out OF town, fured BY
the advertising In his Detroit neWsDa-
per. paid the doctors $50 for his
first treatment The free varied with
the amount the doctors thought
they could get.
Shortly after starting my work on
the Advanced Medical quacks, Nor
man Flowers, formerly acting secre.
tary OF the Detroit Board OF Commerce
and now secretary of the jackson
Chamber Of Commerce, called my at