Snake oil might be best avoided but snake blood may be just what the doctor ordered.
From the newscientist.com
And then, while a doctor cauterized the wounds, Gallo let go of the snake.
From the sfgate.com
Nothing about the episode rings true, starting with the idea that a powerful, prosperous, influential doctor could be blackmailed into staying at some snake-pit throwback of a mental ward.
From the usatoday.com
At this point things seem to be going XCOM's way and the doctor is sighted inside the university, but is captured by a new snake-like creature and dragged into a portal.
From the metro.co.uk
It kind of jumps from him being a notable doctor to the aristocrisy to being an well known but unconventional scientist to being laughed out into the streets selling snake oil.