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 , 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.
