christopher-isherwood: Doctor Linda Hazzard. Created a sanitarium which healed patients through methods of starvation and was convicted in the murder of Claire Williamson, a patient who weighed less than 50 pounds at the time of her death. She was sentenced two to twenty years but after only serving two was released on parole in 1915. She built her “school of health” in 1920 and it burnt down in 1935. Doctor Hazzard died three years later of starvation, while attempting a fasting cure. (source)

christopher-isherwood:

Doctor Linda Hazzard.

Created a sanitarium which healed patients through methods of starvation and was convicted in the murder of Claire Williamson, a patient who weighed less than 50 pounds at the time of her death. She was sentenced two to twenty years but after only serving two was released on parole in 1915. She built her “school of health” in 1920 and it burnt down in 1935. Doctor Hazzard died three years later of starvation, while attempting a fasting cure.

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