Such claims one would imagine would be more than sufficient to make plain, even to the most uncritical of physicians, the evident fraudulence of Expurgo Anti-Diabetes. Nevertheless, the advertisements of this fraud have appeared during 1913 in the following medical journals:
| Medical Times | Medical Review |
| Medical Brief | Therapeutic Record |
| Medical Summary | Medical Fortnightly |
| Buffalo Medical Journal | Indianapolis Medical Journal |
| Louisville Monthly Journal | Southwest Journal of Medicine and Surgery |
| Iowa Medical Journal | Western Canada Medical Journal |
| Canada Lancet | Dominion Medical Monthly |
| Detroit Medical Journal | Canadian Medical Association Journal |
| Medical Herald | Canadian Practitioner and Review |
| Medical Review of Reviews | Massachusetts Medical Journal |
| Medical Standard |
Physicians will recognize that, with but few exceptions, most of these journals are utterly unrepresentative of scientific medicine.
The Army and Navy Medical Record, shown in The Journal recently as a journalistic fraud, contained an editorial puff of Expurgo Anti-Diabetes. The fact that the Expurgo Company reprints the “editorial” from the Army and Navy Medical Record as a “voluntary and unsolicited reference” and distributes it among physicians, indicates how rotten are the props on which the superstructure of this fraud rest.
Another alleged “voluntary and unsolicited reference” used by the Expurgo Company is taken from the Therapeutic Record of Louisville, Kentucky. The advertising pages of the Therapeutic Record reek with frauds and it has more than once given editorial endorsement to some of the frauds that it advertises. The following enlightening letter is alleged to have been written by the editor of the Therapeutic Record to the Expurgo Company in February, 1913:
Gentlemen:—Your favor of February 14th came duly to hand. Let me advise you to pay no earthly attention to the proceedings of the Medical Society where your product was criticized. These people exert no influence with the practical up-to-date element of the profession and are doing you as they do others. Never fear—you will succeed—your remedy is all right. No man can talk down a meritorious product. I stand ready to help you in any way at any time.
With sincere regards, I am,
Robert C. Kenner, M.D.,
Editor, the Therapeutic Record.
This, it will be noticed, was written in February. Soon thereafter the Therapeutic Record was carrying the Expurgo advertisement, and the June, 1913, issue contained a puff on Expurgo, entitled “A Contribution to the Medical Treatment of Diabetes.” The quid pro quo is fairly evident.