University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1982
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On the record
Thieves stole more than $1,600 worth of linens and furniture sometime between 2 and 8 a.m. Wednesday from the Travel Lodge Motel, 811 W. Iowa St.
Police said the thieves entered an unlocked motel room and stole two sets of draperies worth $1600, a bedspread, and a dresser with a lamp worth $45 and a tasting lamb lamp worth $45.
THEIES ALSO stole more than $500 worth of bicycles and bicycle frames sometime between 8 and 11:30 a.m. Wednesday from the yard of a residence at 1304 Massachusetts St., police said.
Thieves took three Schwinn bicycle
frames worth $525 and a boy's bicycle worth $145.
THIEVES STOLE more than $360 worth of equipment sometime between 7 a.m. Sunday and 7 a.m. Monday from a parked pickup at 1701 Bulleane Ave.
Thieves took four tires and four truck wheels from the 1979 Datsun, police said.
THEVEES ALSO stole more than $300 worth of sound equipment sometime between moon and 5 p.m. Wednesday from St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 1011 Shrimp Ridge.
Police said thieves entered the church and stole three microphones from a public address system.
There are no suspects.
Voters' deadline is April 19
If KU students want to vote May 11 in Lawrence's first city commission, he registered for electal candidates. Doreyh Baldain, deputy county clerk, said yesterday.
"Anyone who has moved or changed his name needs to re-register," she said. "This moving thing is something that needs to be stressed. Students do not do it, they need and they do not think they need to re-register, but they do."
Gleason will stay in office, voters will also decide whether they want a 50-cent-a-month fee to be collected on their water bill.
The fee would finance a study of storm water run-off in Lawrence.
The recall election resulted from a petition drive started by a citizens group after Gleason wrote a letter to City Manager Buford Watson suggesting that Watson resign or face the possibility of being fired.
During an evaluation of Watson's job performance in February, however, no significant change was noted.
In addition to the election to decide whether City Commissioner Tom
Quacks prey on unsuspecting
By TOM HUTTON Staff Reporter
Magical cure-alls
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Quacks, those purveyors of unexplored secret, unscripted and illegitimate medical methods, have a long history of preying on animals. The professor of biology at Pittsburg State University, said last night.
"The quack is a dedicated man with a mission—a rebel and eccentric," Keller said in the final Hixon Hour lecture at the University of Kansas Medical Center. "They offer hope where none is possible. But, as every health professional knows, faith and the special suggestion have a tremendous effect."
Keller, who has spoken to more than 4,000 people since 1977, has a collection of more than 300 medically worthless fractures and dislocations from everything from cut to broken bones.
Keller found the items for his collection at ffea markets, antique auctions, garage sales and through other physicians.
The history of quackery dates far back into the history of man, Keller said. But the actual label given these swindlers is fairly recent.
charlatans in Bologna, Italy, during the 16th century." Keller said.
THESE MEN professed knowledge of snakes and other creatures that were considered to cause all of man's lills. Proclaiming knowledge of these animals, the men lured the public into their sometimes extensive ploys.
Quackery in the United States began expanding soon after Benjamin Franklin's discovery of electricity, Keller said. Electricity became one of
"The origins of the word quack comes from the duck-like quacking of the
chairs, bathtubs, belts, and even corsets. All of these devices claimed to cure most any illness that the proprietor could manage to fit into the literature that accompanied the product.
This device, which provided tubes for specialized treatment throughout the
The oldest device in Keller's collection used a high-voltage transformer to alleviate stiffness in joints, as well as other problems.
'The quack is a dedicated man with a mission—a rebel and eccentric. They offer hope where none is possible.'
—Leland Keller, professor of biology
many tools in the quack's bags of tricks, joining the bleeders and potions of dried vines.
Most of the gadgets in Keller's collection were from the 1800s, when quackery abounded.
"In the 1880s, device quackery flourished because the public was more impressed with something that was useful. There was any type of medicine," Keller said.
"These things shock, buzz, spark, light-up, smell or do absolutely nothing to cure." Keller said.
body, carried almost 30,000 volts before being diffused into a wand-like handle.
Keller moved from the electricity phase, which actually continued until the 1950s with the "roller massage," to the radio quacks who advertised their prowess over the airwaves in the '20s and '30s.
John Brinkley of Kansas, who owned radio station KFKB in Milford.
BRINKLEY, who professed to be able to cure elderly men's impotence by using goat glands, made more than $6 million before being convicted in 1839 of fraud.
Another radio-wave healer was Ruth Drown, who began her career professing to be able to make X-rays over the radio. Drown practiced medicine for 22 years, Keller said, before being successfully sued by a close wife who had followed the advice of a Drown radio diagnosis.
One of these crooked physicians was
DURING THE 1800s, quacks sold medical cures that used electricity in
Quacks and faith-healing continued through the 30s and 40s with a strong emphasis on
Oxypathers, which were supposed to oxidize the ions in a bucket of water, sold for $35 each during most of the Depression. More than 45,000 of the worthless nickel-plated tubes were sold to unsuspecting buyers. Keller said.
Quackery will continue, Keller said,
"as long as there is an ill-informed
public that cannot or will not ask
questions."
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