New-York tribune., 1919-04-17
Physician Who Quit Chi
cago When Associates
Were Indicted Doing
a Big Business in N. Y.
Diseases Are Found
For Sound Patients
Physically Well Reporter
Told He Is Victim of
Heart and Lung Ills

medical practice in Chicago in 1918
otter his concern was charged in the
Federal court with quackery, is now
ao;no a thriving business in New York
Dr. Ward calls himself "director" OF
+hs "Electro Medical Scientists" He
maintains sumptuous Offices at:
23o West Seventy-second Street, Man
haitian.
6 Perrepont Street, Brooklyn.
DR.. Wards "scientists" treat hun
dreds Of patients every day. He ex-
pends hundreds of thousands of dollars
In advertising coures for deep seated
chronic and lingering ailments"
In Chicago DR.. Ward was president
Of "Old Doctor" Howe & Company
Several officers of this company were
indicted by Federal grand jury for
Misrepresentation Soon afterward, on
December 9, 1918, Dr. Ward abandoned
the companys Offices at 12O North
Dearborn Street.
Departs from Chicago
The next day "The Chicago Tribune, ~
which had been instrumental in bring
ing about the indictments, reported DR.
Wards departure thus:
"'Old Doc Howe moved on yester-
day. Old Doc was impersonated in
Chicago by DR.. Francis R. Ward.
When the Tribune began its expose of
quacks . DR.. Ward began to see the
reasonableness of transferring his
quackeries to other fields. When a Fed
eral grand jury indicted members of
the corporation old Doc began to
pack up his belongings"
DR.. Ward, after medical ventures in
Buffalo and other upstate cities, came
to New York early in 1917. All his
electro medical contraptions which
had impressed "Old Doc" Howe's
clients in Chicago were set up at 1874
East Thirty-sixth Street.
Positive Cures Promised
Expanding business soon necessi-
tated other offices, and the scientific
appliances were reproduced and in.
stalled in the establishments ir
Seventy-second Street and in Brook
lyn.
Extensive newspaper advertising, ir
which sufferers are exhorted to avail
themselves of the remarkable eff
caey' Of electro medical" method:
keeps Dr. Wards Offices filled nigh
and day "Xray" examinations, assur
ing positive diagnoses" are Offered
for 81. Treatment, costing at leas
$50 and often as high as $1,000, i:
urged upon patients after they have
been examined.
Positive cures are promised
Patients whom other physicians de
clare to be physically sound are pro
nounced by Dr. Wards scientists" t
be seriously i'll.
Contradictory diagnoses are made
a. DR.. Wards different offices.
Diseases Invented
Two deadly diseases of widely vary
ing natures were "discovered" by tn,
acientists' to be threatening the lif,
OF Tribune reporter who visited boti
the Brooklyn and Manhattan Offices O
Dr. Ward within an hour on April 9
A. $3.50 q. m. the reporter called q
Dr. Wards Brooklyn office He wa.
pronounced to be suffering from "seri
Gus heart trouble" His heart beat.
we're SAID to be at the rate Of 100 t,
the minute. His blood pressure wa
stated to be 1862 degrees. He wa
told ne could be cured for $3.50.
Al lo:40 a. m. the same reporte
called at DR.. Wards Manhattan office
he was pronounced to be sufferin,
IRON "instration Of the upper lungs.
h's beartbeats were said to be normal
h's blood pressure was stated to b.
normal. He could be cured for S55.
Inc reporter, before visiting D1
wards Offices, had been found to be il
sound health BY physicians Of lif
insurance company.
DR.. Ward in New York
Inc reporter called at the Brookly,
. once, Pierrepont Street, at $50 a. rr
woman attendant, dressed as
s'aduate nurse, took hs name and ad
oress, wrote II on "diagnosis sheet.
c'Hected the dollar and told tho re
p'''sr 10 70 upstairs. On the sccon
''of landing sat another white garbc
attendant at dcek On a bench in tn
e'Tfidor Eat an old German womar
"1mDiing over her pains, and tw
p"Afed girls, who held each other
"ahns IN Hilence. From the floor abov
'%s1ea the sound Of an electric vibra
"'y machine. From the doors "A
'''her end of the corridor came tn
"0med murmuring Of electrical mech
snisms.
an electro medlco scientist" VIII
~ nct reply when asked his name
"'D< ire rerortcr's "history."
SON, what's the matter with vou J.,
st azxed S" '''
sa yen" WAS the reply, "when sta
,,.d,' d@.e' az ] often do. get awful
II. -.sIsn,la.- took the dlagnonl
HOORAY! TONIGHT