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The International League of Atomic Women |
Radithor
guaranteed "harmless in every respect." |
to add radon to drinking water |
Revigator
described as a "perpetual health spring in the home." |
Lifetime Radium Vitalizer Water Jar supposedly caused "the best of
digestion of your food." |
More
radioactive water Jars |
Radium
Water Jar probably used at a hotel or spa. |
ARIUM
Radium Tablets only cost a dollar for 42 tablets of "genuine radium." |
Q-Ray Electro pad providing the user with the best of two worlds: the curative radiations from radium and the soothing effects of a heating pad!. |
Gra-Maze
Uranium Comforter was billed as "your own health mine in miniature." |
Degnen's
Standard Radioactive Solar Pad needed to be charged in sunlight before use "sending the lifegiving current through the blood and nervous system." |
Radium
Bath for a soothing radioactive experience. "good for nervous disorders, insomnia, general debility, arthritis, and rheumatism". |
Vita
Radium Suppositories "highly recommended for piles and hemorrhoids and is practically a specific for prostate [sic] gland trouble." |
Lifestone
Cigarette Holder "would protect users from lung cancer and promised beautiful faces and excellent health." |
The
Nicotine Alkaloid Control (NAC) Plate (1980present)
It was possible for a cigarette to taste "milder" after treatment with it |
Gable
Ionic Charger not only for drinking but also for "plants you are watering, seedlings you are raising, or animals." |
Thomas
Radioactive Cone and the Zimmer Radon Generator
"fortified with nature's radio-activity, the life of every living thing called Vitamin D" (sic) and "children who drink this water will probably never have ulcers, tumors, cancers, or goiter." |
Radio-Rem
Emanator consisted of 8 bottles, each of which contained a radium source. |
Radiumchema Radioactive Compres guaranteed to contain 0.1 milligrams of radium by the Institut du Radium at the Laboratoire Curie in Paris. |
Radium
Bromide solution homeopathic trituration-containing radium bromide powder |
Endless
Refrigerator/ Freezer Deodorizer was supposed to mysteriously destroy odors |
Shoe-Fitting
Fluoroscope was used in retail stores to x-ray children's feet inside their shoes in the 1930's through 1950s |
Radiendocrinator
"the last word in scientific
manufacture", to be placed over the endocrine
glands. One of the more costly "health-giving"
items at $150 each |
Radium
ore Revigator |
shoe-fitting
x-ray unit there were 10,000 of these devices in use |
Fiestaware fiestaware made prior to 1943 contains small amounts of radiactive material |
Radithor Mr. Beyers drank 1400 bottles of Radithor in 2 1/2 years until his jaw came off! ... from his wheelchair, enlisted the aid of Congress in warning consumers away from these dangerous radium cures. |
Uranium Glass Gallery, here |