Medicine Man
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Part 2: Nanzeta, Prince of Tibet
At the outset, I want to give some necessary credit to David Corp, who, during his time as president of the Danville Historical Society, covered this story before I did and since that time has been a tremendous help in finding clues and photos that I had overlooked or failed to find. I continue to work with DHS to put this story together, and I look forward to a cooperative effort between our organizations, as well as others. When I wrote my piece in 2020, I was ignorant of Dave’s work, but I would be remiss if I proceeded any further in recounting this story if I did not mention…
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Part One: The Advent of the Great Nanzetta
It was while I was researching the story on Police Chief Morris in December of 2018 that I first ran into the name Nanzetta. It was a newspaper article published by the Register and Bee in October of 1909 which described the arrest of a man, by Morris, for forging a check written by the Indian medicine doctor J.H. Nanzetta. It wasn’t long after that, while researching for a post on patent medicines and weird cures of the past, that I ran into Nanzetta again … and again. Not only did he advertise extensively in the local papers, but he seemed to be always in trouble with the law. The Edgar Stripling…
