Amazing Story of a Quack’s Imposture.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 14, 30 September 1908, Page 45

Amazing Story of a Quack’s Imposture.

The extraordinary credulity which still prevails among a large section of the population waa well illustrated by a prosecution at Brunswick, Germany, which resulted in a man named Charles Albrecht -being sentenced to three years’ penal servitude for criminal quackery. Albrecht practised as a quack doctor at

Kirchbrak, and to his many clients he recommended the blood of executed murderers aa a remedy for all kinds of ailments. The demand for this gruesome medicine was enormous, and in. order to cope with it Albrecht obtained a quantity of pig’s blood, which he bottled and sold as the blood of beheaded murderers at 12/a bottle. His profits were very large, and his patients, who numbered hundreds, blindly obeying his directions, drank the pig’s blood, believing it to be the blood of criminals who had died on the scaffold. The name remedy was recommended for heart disease, consumption, gout, skin diseases, and practically every other dorm of sickness.