Linda Hazard, starvation doctor, the basis of another wild time-suck ride because this story is so disturbing.

It could easily be adapted into some kind of torture porn based on a true story horror flick,

and you wouldn't have to dramatize much, if anything about it, to make it scary.

Linda was an early 20th century swindler who literally starved her patients to death

by promoting an extreme

and cruel method of a supposed cure-all health rejuvenation known as the fasting cure.

The so-called fasting specialist was not actually a doctor, although she clung to that title.

She'd obtained a license to practice medicine in Washington State through a legal and poorly thought-out

loophole that allowed some alternative medicine practitioners read snake oil salesmen and saleswomen

with no formal medical degrees to obtain a medical license. Dr. Hazard put her patients through extreme

fasts that could last for months, whether they would be fed

nothing more than vegetable broth or fruit that also received daily, sometimes hour-plus long enemas,

some sort of strange pummeling that she claimed was a healing massage, plus other nonsense

that did nothing to make them feel better. Linda had published a book called The Fasting for the

cure of Disease,

which sadly was published around the world and read by many, and it brought a bunch of patients

to her Seattle office for treatment. She claimed fasting could cure the body of any and all illnesses,

anything from chronic stomach problems to cancer. She built up her Seattle practice to the point

she was able to create a sanitarium in

O'Lala, Washington, a little community just across the Pugent Sound, a Puget Sound from Seattle.

She named it Wilderness Heights, but once locals saw that her patients were skin and bones and

frequently dying, they aptly renamed it Starvation Heights. Many, many patients died.

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