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ARTHRITIS
WARD: LIVE At the National Athritis Foundation meeting in Dallas..a
Foundation officasays victims are still sitting ducks for
the various quack remedies..and spend more than 400-million
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dollars a year on AMts..devices and ointments the biuack-Mm
claim will help Jerry Walsh..an arthritic who serves as a
Foundation investigator..says the quacks are smart enough to
stay up-to-date.Hucksters be anwith snake oil sold from the
back of a wagon..after Uorld War Two..radioactivity brought
out pads..pillows and blankets claimed to be lined with radio-activ
material to he arthitics n..At's Ioon dust..radi active
sand and the latest .acupuncture.Walsh has had arthritis for more
than 30-years..and warns fellow victims..that aspirin in doses
prescribed by doctors..is still the first line of treatment..and
door-to-door charlatans~should be reported to authorities.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Arthritis], script, June 9, 1972, 6:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1547703/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.