Note: Acoustic cardiography is a general term that describes the use of devices to depict heart sounds. In a speech on the day after the seizure took place, Kenneth Milstead, Deputy Director of the FDA Bureau of Enforcement, described Lee as вЂњprobably the largest publisher of unreliable and false nutritional information in the world.вЂќ The Government charged that the deviceвЂ™s labeling contained statements that falsely represented it as effective in detecting vitamin deficiencies, high blood pressure, and many other disease conditions. In 1963, the FDA initiated a seizure of three Endocardiographs from the Vitamin Products Company of Maryland (a distributor) along with promotional literature shipped by LeeвЂ™s organizations. Literature describing the use of the device also claimed that practitioners could use it to вЂњdetect and analyzeвЂќ enlargement of the heart, heart muscle fatigue, and diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies (which Lee alleged to include virtually all diseases). LeeвЂ™s Endocardiograph was an electrical amplifying and recording stethoscope used to вЂњdiagnoseвЂќ disease and prescribe LeeвЂ™s vitamin preparations as treatment. The company, still family owned and operated, is now called Standard Process, Inc. Lee (1895-1967), a nonpracticing dentist, founded and operated the Wisconsin-based Vitamin Products Company which sold food supplements, and the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, which distributed literature on nutrition and health. It said to be a modern (transistorized) version of the Endocardiograph, a device developed by Royal S. The Acoustic CardioGraph (ACG), marketed by the Acoustic CardioGraph Company of San Diego, alifornia, is used by misguided practitioners (mostly chiropractors and naturopaths) to determine what supplements to sell to their patients.

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