The Grape Cure
book · 1928
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SUMMARY
Johanna Brandt's own book setting out the Grape Cure, first published 1928 (per Stephen Barrett's Quackwatch bibliography citation and a Google Books listing of a 17th-edition 1928 printing). The Internet Archive copy consulted (item grapecure00bran) is catalogued as a 1929 printing from the same publisher, the Order of Harmony, New York (OCLC 1035370434; ARK ark:/13960/t49p3r13q; 184 pages), fetched directly via the Internet Archive metadata API and the item's OCR full text (archive.org/download/grapecure00bran/grapecure00bran_djvu.txt, fetched by curl, HTTP 200). Used for Brandt's own claims (the grape as the most magnetic food and a living receiver of cosmic magnetism, per Quackwatch's quotation of the book text; the account of her 1927 voyage to the United States opening on the 4th of July, verified directly against the archive.org full text) and for her own account of an X-ray-confirmed abdominal growth, a refused operation, and a follow-up X-ray she says showed no trace of the growth.
NOTES
Johanna Brandt’s own 1928 book, the primary source for her claimed cure, her self-described mechanism (grapes as antiseptic solvent and “magnetic” food), and her own narrative of arriving in the United States in 1927 to promote it.