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John Romulus Brinkley was an American quack. He had no properly accredited education as a physician and bought his medical degree from a "diploma mill". Brinkley became known as the "goat-gland doctor" after he achieved national fame, international notoriety and great wealth through the xenotransplantation of goat testicles into humans.
Sep 18, 2017 · Posted on September 18, 2017. By Philip Montgomery. Head of McGovern Historical Center. John Richard Brinkley (1885-1942) was best known as the notorious goat-gland doctor. He made his reputation and his millions of dollars by performing xenotransplants. He inserted goat testicles into the scrotum of human males to increase their virility.
Oct 18, 2020 · Brinkley, who was born in North Carolina, had hawked patent cures at medicine shows across the south and had spent some time at an unaccredited “eclectic” medical college before moving to Milford in 1916. It was there, for $750 a whack — more than $15,000 in today’s money — he performed his goat gland quackery.
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Jul 28, 2016 · July 28, 2016. 2 minutes. The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Nuts! is a new animated documentary about John R. Brinkley (1885-1942), a man with a store-bought medical degree who claimed that goat testicle transplants could cure impotence. This “goat gland doc” parlayed his fame and notoriety through the new ...
Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, and professor of history at Rice University.Brinkley is a history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair.
