"Sanipractor"

When Doris Hull, 24, seemed to be wasting away despite visits to home-town doctors in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, her husband took her to Spokane to see Otis G. Carroll, 79, a practitioner of 43 years' experience. Though Paul Hull, a construction worker, thought Carroll was an M.D., he is actually a licensed drugless-healer --a "sanipractor." At his first examination (fee, $50), Carroll took a drop of blood from Doris Hull's ear, put it in his "radionic" device, twirled some knobs, concluded that he got a vibration at a dial reading of 42. To him, this indicated some form of tuberculosis.

Carroll did not say anything to the' Hulls about TB, though state law requires drugless-healers to report such cases to public health officials. Instead, he prescribed hot and cold compresses to increase her absorption of water. Though Mrs. Hull had weighed only 108 Ibs. and continued to lose, Carroll did not keep track of her weight. She went on ten-day fasts, during which she took nothing but water. Five months later, Doris Hull died of starvation and tuberculosis. She weighed 60 Ibs.

On this testimony in Paul Hull's suit against Carroll, a Spokane jury last week awarded him $35,823 for his wife's death, $2,000 because both he and their daughter, 2, contracted TB from her.

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