Linda Hazzard (1867 – 1938)

Linda Hazzard (1867 – 1938)

Linda Hazzard was an American quack, swindler, and convicted serial killer noted for her promotion of fasting, pummeling and hours-long enemas as treatments. Extracts from her Wiki entry: Hazzard established a “sanitarium” called Wilderness Heights, located in Olalla, Washington, where inpatients fasted for days, weeks, or months on a diet consisting of small amounts of tomato, asparagus juice, and occasionally orange juice. While some patients …