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Chas. D. Dixon, M. D.
OTHER PROSECUTIONS.
We have filed charges against and convicted fourteen
fortune tellers, who did magnetic healing as a side line.
These people being convicted for vagrancy. We have also
stopped a number of fakers from advertising by writing
them letters, warning them that if they continued to do
this misleading advertising we would prosecute them.
Of all the cases we have prosecuted in the courts, we have
failed to convict only two of them. And we have made it
convenient to move to other fields about fifty people selling
different kinds of cure-all preparations. We have caused
to be arrested two traveling opticians, for treating diseases
of the eyes, at Halletsville, Texas, both being convicted and
fined fifty dollars and one day in the county jail.
Our city was favored with a visit from the United Doc-
tors, a few months ago, but they did not stay long enough
to allow us to make their acquaintance. We succeeded,
however, in causing their arrest at Lockhart, Texas, where
they lodged for a night in the county jail, and paid a fine of
fifty dollars. Their promises to leave the State has been
kept with a faith characteristic of these fraudulent im-
posters.
We receive letters almost every day from physicians over
the State, desiring information as to the proper way of rid-
ding their community of some medical charlatan. We feel
well paid to see that our work can be of service to the whole
State of Texas, and it is no little satisfaction to know that
its influence may be more than State-wide. By request of
physicians over the State, I hereby submit copy of affidavit
we use in prosecuting these people. This has stood the test,
has been appealed to the higher courts of the land, and has
been affirmed in all cases.
Thanking you for the privilege of presenting this work,
and hoping that it may be of some benefit and encourage-
ment to others engaged in the worthy work of ousting the
quacks.93
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Dixon, Chas. D. (Charles D.). The Menace, an Exposition of Quackery Nostrum Exploitation and Reminiscences of a Country Doctor, book, 1914; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth143569/m1/111/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting University of Texas Health Science Center Libraries.