News: John R. Brinkley

The remarkable events I'm going to chronicle here would likely never have unfolded, in 1917, if young Dr. John Brinkley had not been hired as house doctor at the Swift meatpacking company, located in Kansas. He was dazzled by the vigorous mating activities of the goats destined for the slaughterhouse.

One of the great personalities of American medical quackery is a fascinating, ne’er-do-well egomaniacal character names John Brinkley.John R. Brinkley was a real scalawag, widely known as the “Goat Gland Doctor.”