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Brinkley, John R. (1886-1942)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1942 Jun 4 p. 1
Birth date: 1886
text of obituary:
DR. JOHN R. BRINKLEY DIES IN SAN ANTONIO AT AGE OF 56
Dr. John R. Brinkley, whose income at times ranged all the way from several hundred thousand to over a million, died early last week in a San Antonio hospital. For many years he was known popularly as "the goat gland doctor."
Doctor Brinkley died in his sleep of a heart ailment which followed the amputation of a leg in Kansas City several months ago. He had been under the care of physicians at Del Rio and San Antonio since his return to Texas.
Few men in modern medicine had a career as strange as John R. Brinkley.
It led him within the shadow of the Governor's chair of Kansas — the same state which revoked his license to practice medicine after finding him guilty of gross immorality and unprofessional conduct.