Dr. William O. Coffee and his absorption cure for cataract.

Abstract:

:Dr. William O. Coffee was an ophthalmologist who conducted an office and mail-order practice in the Midwest from the 1880s until 1927. His main stock in trade was a self-discovered absorption cure for a variety of ocular diseases, with particular emphasis on the medical cure of cataracts. Dr. Coffee's career was a checkered one, marked by dubious credentials, exuberant self-promotion, unlikely and exaggerated claims of medical successes, plagiarism, and rejection by the medical "establishment." Certain parallels may be drawn between his activities and some currently observed practices in ophthalmology.

journal_name

Ophthalmology

journal_title

Ophthalmology

authors

Ferry AP

doi

10.1016/s0161-6420(89)32758-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-08-01 00:00:00

pages

1257-66

issue

8

eissn

0161-6420

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1549-4713

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S0161-6420(89)32758-8

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96

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