Abstract

Dr. William O. Coffee was an ophthalmologist who conducted an office and mail-order practice in the Midwest from the 1880s until 1927. His main stock in trade was a self-discovered absorption cure for a variety of ocular diseases, with particular emphasis on the medical cure of cataracts. Dr. Coffee's career was a checkered one, marked by dubious credentials, exuberant selfpromotion, unlikely and exaggerated claims of medical successes, plagiarism, and rejection by the medical “establishment.” Certain parallels may be drawn between his activities and some currently observed practices in ophthalmology.

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