The Grape Cure

Stephen Barrett, M.D.'s Quackwatch review of Johanna Brandt's Grape Cure, fetched directly (curl, browser user agent) via a Wayback Machine capture after the live quackwatch.org host returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch. Byline and revision date ('This article was revised on September 18, 2001') confirmed on the fetched page. Covers Brandt's 1927 US arrival and the Harmony Healing Centre in New York; Bernarr Macfadden's 1928 coverage in his Evening Graphic; the AMA's record that the Centre was charged with practicing medicine without a license; the F.W. Collins/First National University of Naturopathy succession; Jessie Springer's reopened Centre and advertising for grape juice/concentrate sales; the March 15, 1940 FTC cease-and-desist order (citing JAMA 116:2525, 1941); a 1948 US Postal Service fraud order; the 1962 California Cancer Advisory Council finding and cease-and-desist order; American Cancer Society reviews in 1965, 1971, 1974, and 2000 finding no evidence of benefit; and Bernarr Macfadden's 1950 $10,000 challenge followed within a year by his own foundation halting sales of the book. Established quackery-watchdog medical source; author is a retired psychiatrist and long-time consumer-health-fraud investigator (FDA Commissioner's Special Citation Award, 1984).