New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-04-20
''Director'' of electro Med.
icai Scientists Admits to
Assistant District ATTORNEY
His Method Is Not Cure.All
Income About $3OOa Day
Treats l2o Patients at $40
Each Daily, He Says; Not
an Expert Diagnostician

DR.. Francis R. Ward, director" Of
the Electro Medical Scientists" when
questioned by Owen w. Bohan, Assis-
tant District Attorney, concerning the
methods used by DR.. Ward in his "won-
derfnl new system" of treating disease.
at $50 West Seventy-second Street
Manhattan, and 6 Pierrepont Street.
Brooklyn, stated that:
1. He abandoned his practice in Chi
cago because his advertised claims
were attacked by the newspapers.
2 He does not assert that he can
cure anything-this despite his adver
used declarations that "electro-medi
cal science not only relieves but checks
and cures disease"
3. He is not an expert diagnostician.
He has not, either in his Brooklyn or
Manhattan office, any one who may be
called a special diagnostician-this de-
spite his claims that his diagnoses are
"doubly certain"
A. He does not accept "any chronic
cases, like tuberculosis, heart disease
or cancer"-this despite his adver-
tised willingness to treat "deep-seated,
chronic and lingering ailments"
Income $500 a Day
5. He treated last year an average of
125 patients daily at $40 treatment,
giving him gross income of $500 a
day, or about $4,000 q month-this de-
spite his statement that he expended !
last year in advertising alone $4,000
monthly and expected to spend this
year $4,000 monthly.
6. He is not member of the Acad-
envy OF Medicine, because "they won't
let me-"
The questions put to DR.. Ward by
Assistant District Attorney Bohan and
DR.. Wards replies, in part, were:
Q.-Various complaints have been
made to this Office from individuals
and associations, and our office has
decided to make an investigation. II
am sending for you with the object of
asking certain questions, and | want
TO warn you, in the event the District
Attorney ascertains that your business
Is not conducted according to law,
your answers day may be used
against you; are you willing to an
swer these questions? A.-Yes.
Q.-Are you a duly licensed physi-
eIan of the State of New York? A.
= es.
Graduate of Bellevue
Q. Did you graduate from Bellevue
and .7llied hospitals? Ayes.
O. When did you receive your IL
cense? A.-1S90; in the state, 1894.
T.
practice? A-No; engaged in special
o~what kind? A.-Genito-urinary
Q-conuected with any hospital? A.
Q.-Private practice? A.-Not pri-
waite practice; special work.
Q.-For whom? Any partner and
myself.
Q.-What was your partners name?
A.-Dr. Janss.
Q-were you ever associated with
any one else in Oh icago? A.-Dr.
Moorehead.
Q.-You had an office together? A
Associated together.
Odd you advertise in Chicago?
Ayes.
Q.-Under your name. A-No, sir;
under the name of Dl-, Howe Co
first, as an employee
Q.-You say Dr. Howe ? A-Yes.
Q.-Do you know him? A.-No, sir;
it was the firm name; never met
him; DR.. Janss and Dr.. Howe were
partners; Howe sold out to Janss.
Q.-You were employed. by them for
how long? A.-Three or four or five
years, perhaps.
Was President of Firm
Q.-Were YOU an officer of DR.. Howe
& Co? A.-No.
Q.-Were you not the president? A.
Yes; afterward the firm was sold to
DR.. Morton, and | got interested in it,