The Grape Cure

Article by Alice White published by the Wellcome Collection (UK medical-history museum and library), fetched directly via curl (browser UA) after an initial WebFetch pass was re-verified against the raw HTML to guarantee verbatim quote provenance. Byline 'Alice White'; publication date 16 November 2021 confirmed on the fetched page. Describes Johanna Brandt as an 'Afrikaner Nationalist and spy' who published The Grape Cure claiming to have cured her own stomach cancer by eating only grapes; states that 'Various legal rulings went against the organisation' Brandt set up, that companies continued selling grape juices and extracts trading on the book, that Bernarr Macfadden offered a 1950 $10,000 challenge before his own foundation's Physical Culture Library Service stopped selling the book and its own grape pamphlet within a year, and that the American Cancer Society investigated repeatedly and found no evidence of benefit (linking the DOI resolved separately as acs-grape-diet-1974). Independent modern institutional secondary source corroborating Barrett's Quackwatch account.