Dr. Walford Bodie is a blessing for this column since he seemingly caused controversy in every single month of the year. He spent a significant portion of his career claiming he could use electricity, hypnosis, and manipulation to cure all kinds of ailments and disabilities, but on this day in 1916, at least one person decided he had taken things too far. He was ordered to pay the sum of £25 to a plaintiff he had treated, who claimed they had suffered “an overdose of electricity.”
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