S. Andral Kilmer

Sylvester Andral Kilmer (December 19, 1840 - January 14, 1924) was an American physician, involved with patent medicine via his invention of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root and other remedies, sold through Dr. Kilmer & Co., a family-run business managed by his brother, Jonas M. Kilmer, and nephew, Willis Sharpe Kilmer. After his retirement from the swamp-root business in 1892, Kilmer established a sanitarium and hydrotherapium at Sanitaria Springs, New York, which he operated for some twenty years, and promoted himself as having the ability to cure cancer without surgical intervention.

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After being bought out of his patent medicine business, Kilmer dedicated himself to his sanitarium and system of cancer cure ("De-Cancerizing Removal System"), as the CanCertorium: