Las Vegas optic., 1914-10-01
DUKET FAILS TO
GET LAS VEGAS
SUPPORT
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two years ago and had not received
any benefit, addressed the meeting,
asserting he did not believe DR.. Duket
should have the endorsement of the
community.
Dr. Dulxet replied briefly to the al
legations made against him. He said
that he had made proposition to
the business men that did not entail
the expenditure of money until he had
proved his professional ability and his
reliability as man. He denied the
charges that his cure was a fraud,
but declared that he had told the
meeting it was not his Intention to
exploit any cure but simply to adver-
tise Las Vegas as a health resort.
Following the meeting DR.. Duket de-
clared to representative of The Op-
tic that he probably would remain
here and open a sanitarium even if
he does not get the support of the
Commercial club. He says he has
license to practice in New Mexico.
What the journal Said
The following article concerning
Duket appeared in the Journal of the
American Medical Association on
April 25, 1914:
about a year ago the Journal gave
its readers the results of an investiga-
ton of a widely heralded cure for
consumption put out by Peter P. Du'
ket, NJ. D. Duket originally exploited
his cure in Findlay, o., but failing to
make a commercial success of it there,
he attempted to obtain a license to
practice in and to transfer his wretch
ed business to Colorado A wide
awake board of medical examiners
frustrated this attempt. Duket final
lv came to Chicago, where he was
able to interest those who controlled
Bennett Medical college in his cure /;
these in turn enlisted financial assist
ance from ex-senator Lorimer to 'in-
vestieate' the cure Incidentally
Duket obtained a license to practice
i in Illinois. Then followed the second
exploitation of this fraud on the con
sumptive.
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GAS a result of it's investigations the
Journal showed, as will be remember
ell that Duket was a man of no scien
tific standing and OF unsavory profes
sional reputation; it showed that il
13 cases investigated, the past RECORD
of Duket's cure gave a mortality o
about so per cent; it showed that the
publicity and the professional recogni
ton then being given Duket's curt
was utterly unwarranted
"The only answer forthcoming t.
these criticisms was that the jour
navs articles were on attack on Duke
personally Meanwhile, Mr., Lorimer'
money was being freely spent to Civ
added publicity to this WORTHLESS
! cure A mailing list was compiled
said to contain 100000 names, bullet
ms were sent out at stated intervals
advertising the cure far and wide. Thi
, went on for some months and the
a news item appeared in the Chicag
papers, announcing unofficially tha
the investigation of the Duket cur
had demonstrated its worthlessnes.
L These items appeared November
1873. So far as the Journal has bee
able to learn, however, the 14O, 900 pei
sons receiving the bulletins advertisin
: the cure have not been sent the fins
: report, showing its worthlessness.
After some weeks theDa Journs
: wrote asking when the public woul
be notified of the results of the ii
.JNestigatiom wNo definite reply wa
: given upon this point, but some tim
later a copy of the report on th
cure was received for publication
The report was returned with tn
suggestion that it be given the coul
try through the same avenues {
publicity that had been used in cruell
raising the hopes of the consumptivei
Tt was again asked whether the fact
7 we're going to be given to the publ,
No reply was forthcoming In vie
of this, it becomes the Journals III
pleasant duty to give what publicit
it can to the essential part of the r.
| pert of Duket hackers on the Duke
h cure. The findings are really sun
+ med up in the following paragraph
t taken from the report as submitted /
n the Journal The capitalization
a. ours: s
l. 1t may at once be stated that IL
If investigators and authors of this I
,r pert have finally come to the concl
sion that there are ABSOLUTELY n
MERITS IN THE DUKET TREA
te MENT OF TUBERCULOSIS! that Il
II. method is VASTLY INFERIOR I