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Part One: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures

Behind the Bastards

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Is There a Better Way to Cure Cancer Than Surgery?

Hoxie's vaunted remedy was an escharotic, a corrosive chemical that ate away the flesh. Through the ages, physicians had employed such corrosive agents and treating external cancers but this mode of procedure had become outmoded. The risk of damage to healthy flesh was tremendous. Surgery was much safer and more certain.

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