Nostrums and Quackery (American Medical Association): 'J.B.L. Cascade'

The AMA's investigative exposé of the J.B.L. Cascade is the case's primary disconfirming document for the device itself (as distinct from the autointoxication theory). It reports that the 'J.B.L. Cascade Treatment,' exploited by Charles A. Tyrrell of New York City, consisted of self-administered rectal enemas using a rubber-bag syringe (the appliance, shaped like a hot-water bottle with a hard-rubber injection point) together with a sold 'patent medicine,' the 'J.B.L. Antiseptic Tonic' (salt and borax in water), plus a rectal soap. It records that Tyrrell, born in 1843, received a diploma from the Eclectic Medical College of New York in 1900, was president of the concern that also sold the 'Ideal Sight Restorer,' and published the magazine Health. On Tyrrell's inventorship: the AMA found that, per United States patent records, Henry M. Guild invented the device (patented 1903, with a modified form patented 1904), and that both patents were assigned to the Tyrrell concern; the AMA also notes the device was essentially the same as one patented by Joseph Lalonde (Canada 1892, United States 1894). It reproduces Tyrrell's single-cause theory ('only one disease,' 'only one cause for disease, and that is auto-intoxication') and a list of his disease-cure claims, and characterizes the business as quackery. Identifiers in this case are page references to the digitized copy; no DOI/PMID applies.