The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-24
EXPOSES SYSTEM OF FAKE
 CURE INSTITUTES
Mulcted Gullible Persons All Over East With Sani-
 tarium Syndicate.

2 New York. April 24.-F onowing a confession made yesterday afternoon by. a physician who was, arrested dur ing the raids on bogus medical insti- -utes last Wednesday detectives Of the County Medical society are seeking four Iaynen who were named as the organizers of a chain of medical nnu- seuns throughout tho East, with branch ogices in Manhattan.
 George W. Whiteside of No. 27 Will liam street, counsel for the County Medical society, to whom the comics sion was made, received documentary evidence that a syndicate, with head quarters here, in Chicago and in Phil ade1phia, have taken close to 5$1, ,2oO.- 900 from ignorant people in 20 big cities
 In the syndicate are more than 90 museums and institutes and. more than 500 doctors. sscasemakers.' exam iners. interpreters an defendants em- pIoyed-
 Exposure of the system was made by a doctor who unable to obtain a legitimate practice accepted employ Inent in one of the institutes and for several years was sent about the country to extend the organization.
 Independent medical institutes, he said, are driven out of business by the syndicate through spies who are sent into the rival places to obtain a list of patients These lists are used to take away the trade of independz ents
 ..The organizations are so per fected, am told, that a branch of fee took in s2,5oO in the first two weeks it was open MT. whiteside said. Another so-caIled institute had profits of $60, 1000 in a year
 7eva m a fdI study of human nature are the heads of the systeFE After a city has been decided upon sas a likely place for an institute scouts ar esent to make a survey of the foreign colonies. A place is then selected for a. museum consisting of one or more regular pay- sicians and four aids are sent to the institute.
 "Circu1ars in several languages are distributed. A celebrated European professor has just come to this country with a cure for almost any disease that can be mentioned Soon patients begin to arrive. After examination, the first payment having been made, the patient is put a diet which so weakens him he imagines he really is an1feted with the disease that the doctor has named. This bogus pro- lessor charges another fee and recon mendS a. new system or Ires1Im ment- By 1.-the time that treatment is finished the patient has no more money left"
 Mir Whiteside has received commu- lnications offering aid from Chicago, Philadelphia nd-Pittsburgh where campaigns against quack physicians and the fake medical institutes are being planned.
 | Chief Magistrate McAdoo, who issued I the warrants against the doctors and attendants who were arrested VVrednes- day, held Dr. Nicholas Metaxas of No. 137 East Twenty-sixth street under $500 bail yesterday for the court of special sessions. He also held Emanuel zymorakis of No. 2 James street under $1,00o bail for further examination or a charge of practising medicine with out a license.
 Vincenzo Cesareo, who ran the Uni versaI Scientific Institute at No. 59 Grove street, was sentenced to three months in the penitentiary yesterday in special sessions, having been con victed of practising medicine without a license -7-.-szL z c >-.
 In a printed circular Cesareo prom ised to cure all Sorts of nervous ais eases by mental suggestion through the aid of a hypnotic medium, who made diagnoses and prescribed treat