He would surgically implant goat testicles inside the bodies of willing men, which he claimed would help rejuvenate a man’s virility, in addition to fixing other physical conditions.
Needless to say, the medical merit of remedy eventually came into question, and despite his success, Brinkley ultimately found himself taken to court after several deaths occurred after performing the procedure.
What was Brinkley’s remedy for this ailment?
Based on the 2008 book Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock, Charlatan will center its story on Matt Damon’s John R. Brinkley — a doctor who achieved massive success in the early 1900s by hocking a fake cure for impotence.