``Cancer!'' Mrs. Shaefer practically shrieked. ``You didn't tell me I had cancer.''

``You have it, all right. But as long as you can have treatment from my machine you have nothing to worry about. Why, I once used this machine to cure a woman with 97 pounds of cancer in her body.''

He urged her to buy one of his machines -- for $300. When she said that she didn't have the money, he said that she could come in for treatment with his office model until she was ready to buy one. He then sold her minerals to cure her kidney ailment, a can of sage ``to make her look like a girl again,'' and an application of plain mud to take her wrinkles away.

Lee renewed his pressure on Mrs. Shaefer to buy his machine when she visited him the next day. After another treatment with the machine, he told her that ``her entire body was shot through with tumors and cysts.'' He then sold her some capsules that he asserted would take care of the tumors and cysts until she could collect the money for buying his machine.

When she submitted to his treatment with the capsules, Mrs. Shaefer felt intense pain. Leaving Lee's office, Mrs. Shaefer hurried over to her family physician, who treated her for burned tissue. For several days, she was ill as a result of Lee's treatment.

Mrs. Shaefer never got around to joining the thousand or so people who paid Lee some $30000 for his ozone machines. For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau. And she felt amply rewarded for her suffering when the evidence of Lee's quack shenanigans, gathered by the tape recorder under her friend's clothing, proved adequate in court for convicting Franklin D. Lee. The charge: violation of the California Medical Practices Act by practicing medicine without a license and selling misbranded drugs. The sentence: 360 days' confinement in the county jail.