This from Maine:
“What is Auto-Hemic Therapy? I have a handsome red and yellow circular from the Ideal Life Extension Press, 2812 North Clark St., Chicago, soliciting subscriptions to their publication, offering as a bonus this book, ‘Auto-Hemic Therapy’ by L. D. Rogers, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Chicago, and membership in the American Medical Union.”
THE NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
In order better to appreciate the probable scientific status of “Auto-Hemic Serum,” it is well briefly to sketch some of the previous activities of its discoverer, Dr. L. D. Rogers. For many years Rogers was the head and chief owner of the National Medical University of Chicago, a low-grade school of the “sun-down” variety. The “university” is now out of existence and for some time before it went out of existence was not recognized either by the board of health of the state in which it operated or by the boards of the majority of the other states in the Union. The report of the Carnegie Foundation on medical education had this to say about the laboratory facilities of Rogers’ school:
“The school occupies a badly lighted building, containing nothing that can be dignified by the name of equipment. There has been no dissecting thus far (October to the middle of April, 1909), anatomy being didactically taught. Persistent inquiry for the ‘dissecting-room’ was, however, finally rewarded by the sight of a dirty, unused, and almost inaccessible room containing a putrid corpse, several of the members of which had been hacked off. There is a large room called the chemical laboratory, its equipment ‘locked up,’ the tables spotless. ‘About ten’ oil-immersion microscopes are claimed—also ‘locked up in the storeroom.’ There is not even a pretense of anything else. Classes in session were all taking dictation.”
Dr. Rogers is, or was, if he is not still, “Permanent Secretary” of the “National Association of Panpathic Physicians”—whatever that is. In fact, one of Dr. Rogers’ specialties seems to be the founding of quasimedical organizations—organizations, apparently, which may prove useful in the promulgation of such projects as he may, at the time, be interested in. A few years ago, Rogers was exploiting a “cancer serum” and, presto, the “American Cancer Research Society” came into being, L. D. Rogers, president. Soon thereafter certain members of the profession were circularized urging them to purchase shares in the “Cancer Research Laboratory and Hospital,” par value $10. Apparently, the profession did not invest.
A few years ago, also, L. D. Rogers’ name appeared on the “Faculty” list of the “American Post-Graduate School,” a concern which granted—on the mail-order plan—a long line of sonorous degrees and an equally complete line of ornate diplomas.
THE JAPANESE CONSUMPTION CURE
Then, in 1915, there appeared in the classified columns of certain newspapers the following advertisement:
TUBERCULOSIS—New Japanese treatment; to prove merits and give discovery quick publicity will send 10 days’ treatment free.
DR. ROGERS, 546 Surf St., Chicago.