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A farm boy from the North Carolina mountains, he had found his way into quackery by the time he reached his 20s, and though a brief flirtation with "electric medicine from Germany" -- "injecting colored water into rear ends" -- got him into jail in South Carolina in 1913, he just headed west and bounced right back.
Jonathan Yardley's fascinating book review in yesterday's Washington Post tells the story of Dr. John R. Brinkley, whose "miracle" goat gonad cure and his efforts to advertise it led to the cultural phenomenon of outlaw country and made him one of the worst serial killers in US history.
More on Brinkley here.
Via jeremylott.net.
