The human x-ray scientists
Albert and William Grant of Maidstone claimed extraordinary healing abilities, treating patients with unconventional methods. Despite scrutiny and patient deaths, Albert avoided mistreatment charges. William died in World War I.
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Albert Isaac Grant and his brother William Grant of Maidstone claimed to possess extraordinary abilities, including the power to see into people's lungs and cure diseases by generating new internal organs. Albert, a former sanitary inspector, began practicing as a healer in 1910, attracting patients with consumption, cancer, and blindness. The brothers treated patients in their family home, charging two guineas a week for treatment. Despite their claims, several patients, including William Sharp and May Twort, died under their care. Albert Grant faced scrutiny from the coroner's court but was not found guilty of mistreatment. The brothers' unconventional methods and questionable abilities raised suspicions of fraud, although some patients believed in their treatments. William Grant eventually left the establishment, got married, and tragically died in World War I. The story of the Grant brothers highlights the desperation of patients seeking hope when conventional medicine offered little solace.
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2 comments[0] I don't mean this as 'con artist', but people who think they're more competent than they actually are. There's probably a better term...
Maybe it had to do with literacy - effective techniques weren't propagated more quickly because they were passed down to apprentices, rather than published widely. I enjoyed this post:
A caesarean section in 18th-century Ireland - Irish midwife Mary Donally saved a woman's life by performing a c-section in 1738. - https://thequackdoctor.substack.com/p/a-caesarean-section-in...
The baby was breach, and did not survive. The illiterate midwife showed up 12 days after labor had begun, extracted the dead baby, sewed the woman up with silk thread and tailor's needles, and applied a salve made with egg whites. A literate surgeon visited a few days after the operation, and wrote a report for Medical Essays and Observations.
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