Quack Cures

**Museum of Radioactive Quack Cures**
**The items shown on these pages are part of**
The Oak Ridge Associated Universities' (ORAU's) Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Museum Collection
which contains more than 1,000 objects.
Radithor guaranteed "harmless in every respect."	Radium emanator 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.	RADIOACTIVE CURATIVE DEVICES AND SPAS Dr. C.G. Davis: "Radioactivity prevents insanity, rouses noble emotions, retards old age, and creates a splendid youthful joyous life."	Nuclear Medicine
Health Physics Posters	Atomic Toys	Canned Radiation from TMI (1979, 1980)	Frisky Whiskey Bottle (ca. 1963-65)
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.	Radioluminescent Items	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 (ca. 1930-1940) 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