“Dr.” Eli Perkins was arrested by a California sheriff and a platoon of deputized vigilantes in 1882 and summarily sentenced to “hang by the neck until dead” for a number of crimes, the least of which was “quackery.” This is a partial transcript of his last medicine show, taken by a surreptitious stenographer wearing a […]
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