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Vintage Postcards of Indiana Health FacilitiesClinic of Drs. Charles and Peter Kaadt%u2014%u2014South Whitley, Indiana%u2014%u2014Established 1936The practice of Drs. Charles and Peter Kaadt, two quacks who were convicted, fined, and went to prison.Healthcare in Indiana, continuedWayne in 1905. He joined the local medical society, and in the mid-1920s, began selling a Diabetic Ferment Treatment by mail-order for diabetics, without examining any patients. It sold for $5 a bottle with a 20-day supply. He claimed he was given the formula %u201cby an old European woman,%u201d and it cured 90 per cent of all cases. Soon, he began receiving letters from physicians asking what the miraculous medicine contained%u2014but he never replied. In 1932, the Food and Drug Administration investigated him. However, the case was dropped when he agreed to remove some claims from the labels. Four years later, he moved to South Whitley into a two-story brick building. That%u2019s when, the Post Office launched a mail-fraud case against him. After being prescribed a yellow-brown cloudy fluid, without ever seeing the doctor, an undercover Post Office inspector had it tested. It was essentially saltpeter dissolved in vinegar%u2014useless in treating diabetes. At this time, 9 years had passed since the discovery of insulin, which Kaadt didn%u2019t believe in. Soon after being joined in South Whitley by his brother Peter, who was also a physician, Charles was indicted and tried in a Fort Wayne Federal court, but after a parade of satisfied patients testified for him, he was granted a motion for a new trial%u2014which never took place. To not run afoul the Post Office officials again, he changed his practice, and only prescribed to patients who showed up in his clinic. When the president of the American Diabetes Association produced records in 1946 on 17 patients who had been treated the Dr. Kaadts%u2019 South Whitley office, it revealed 12 were later admitted to hospitals in diabetic comas. This led the Indianapolis Better Business Bureau launch its own investigation. At the time, it was estimated that Kaadt%u2019s clinic grossed $60,000 a month. The brothers were eventually prosecuted in Fort Wayne in April 1948. Each was fined $7,000 and sent to prison for four years. Peter was released early due to illness, and succumbed soon afterward. Charles served out his term, and died in 1957.