John Brinkley headed to Del Rio after losing his Kansas license in 1930. His son would end...
) from 1894 to 1973 in the Woodlawn area, was one of several ties the Brinkley family had to San Antonio.Born in North Carolina, Brinkley was the son of a “mountain doctor” , who impregnated his wife’s niece but took responsibility for their child after her death from tuberculosis. Young Brinkley attended a one-room schoolhouse in Tuckasegee, N.C. In his later years, he said not having graduated from high school kept him out of legitimate medical schools.
Thanks to reciprocal agreements with other states, Brinkley went on to practice in Kansas and then in Texas. He set up his first major practice in the tiny town of Milford, Kan., which had failed to attract a more conventionally educated doctor.
In addition, a “Dr. Brinkley Pharmacy” sold prescriptions that were actually colored water, Mercurochrome, horse liniment or repackaged versions of other drugmakers’ products. He set up a practice in that city’s Roswell Hotel and a radio station across the river in Villa Acuña, where his outrageous claims and over-the-air diagnoses would be beyond the reach of the FRC.
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