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The richest man in America rebuilt American medicine around the laboratory, then went home to a homeopath and lived to 97. His father was a travelling salesman who called himself Dr William Levingston. He was not a doctor, and his name was not Levingston. William Avery Rockefeller, known as Devil Bill, worked the backroads as a "botanic physician" selling elixirs out of a wagon, and when he died they buried him under the false name. His son went into oil. At Standard Oil's peak, John D. Rockefeller controlled around 90% of American refining. In 1910 a schoolteacher with no medical degree, Abraham Flexner, published a report on every medical school in North America. The Carnegie Foundation paid for it. His brother Simon was running the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at the time. The report said most of the schools were unfit to exist. Within twenty years roughly half of them had closed: the homeopathic colleges, the eclectic colleges, and five of the seven schools training Black doctors. Then the money arrived. Rockefeller's General Education Board, which Abraham Flexner later joined, poured tens of millions into the schools that rebuilt themselves on his model. Laboratories, full-time professors, research departments. The doctor of the new century would find the disease in a test tube and fight it with chemistry, and every serious school in America was built to produce him. The man paying for all of it had other arrangements for his own body. For decades his personal physician was Hamilton Biggar, a homeopath. Rockefeller took his advice, took his walks, and died in 1937 at 97. So the son of a fake doctor paid to manufacture the real ones, and would not let one near him. You got the laboratory. He kept the family recipe.