The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS . An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing USA Today
In 1917, John R. Brinkley America s most brazen con man introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility.
It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made Dr. Brinkley one of America s richest men and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country s most daring and dangerous charlatan out of business, yet each effort seemed only to...