Claim · 1930 · Baker's Cancer Cure (tea and injections)
The numbered injections given at Baker's hospitals, alongside the watermelon-seed and corn-silk tea, would cure cancer and other diseases including piles, rupture, prostate conditions, and varicose veins.
No specific mechanism was ever named for why a dilute-acid-and-saline injection or a carbolic-acid-and-glycerin injection would cure cancer or any of the other conditions Baker’s advertising listed. Government chemical analysis introduced at the 1940 mail-fraud trial found the injections to be non-selective chemical solutions with no demonstrated therapeutic action against cancer.
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- Baker v. United States, 115 F.2d 533 (8th Cir. 1940) — Baker et al. v. United States, 115 F.2d 533 (8th Cir. Nov. 20, 1940) (No. 11683), rehearing denied Dec. 7, 1940.