Strangest "quack medicine" device you've ever heard of or seen?
What's the craziest "quack medicine" device you've ever come across? Can be antique, vintage or modern ... and love to see some pics or video :-)
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The section on “quackery” is divided into categories of galvanism, phrenology, respirators, massage:
http://www.phisick.com/zquack.htm
Click on each picture will bring you to more pictures and details of that device.
Some that I find extremely quackery.
Check out these from the website:
Oxydonor Victory,
Violet Ray Set,
Elektroller Faradisation Instrument,
Vintage German Massager,
"Macaura's Pulsocon" - Vibrating Massage.
Some are patented, invented by doctor and come with 100 over pages of instructions !
website mentioned in text
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I want one of those :-)
wow, I have to add this link to their main site http://www.harmonyunited.com/start.html
hahaha humans are so gullible!
They will also put an egg on a glass after being rubbed on the body part which is in pain. They will analyze this one if it has a certain shape. This is how they will predict how you got the illness you have. They will then make you drink this one. RAW.
And last weird quack medicine I'd like to share is the one where an "albularyo" uses a basin with water, then a lighted candle. The patient must be in front of that basin after being massaged with a certain oil then they'll let the lighted candle's wax flow on the basin of water. This will then take shape into something (sometimes only them sees, lol) where they'll be predicting again, who or what causes the illness. Sometimes, an "albularyo" would even suggest that a ghost or a fairy cursed you or something like that. XD
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that site is fun :-) what do you think is the freakiest thing there?
My choice is “Oxydonor Victory by Hercule Sanche”:
http://www.phisick.com/a8oxydonor1.htm
There are total 8 pictures there.. (click on those pictures on top of the webpage.)
Some of the “features” make it the “most outrageous” quackery medical device:
1. It is invented by a doctor, Dr Hercules Sanche of Detroit Michegan.
2. Patented.
3. Its outrageous cure-all claims: "To cure all form of Disease quickly, intangibly, pleasantly, infallibly, during sleep or while awake; and to brace the human system in all conditions, with Animation never known and not otherwise attained, whether in Disease of Debility, or in Fatique, and in all Physical and Mental Ordeals"
4. Its outrageous method to “cure all” : “place the central metal tube or "Vocor" in a jar of iced water and then attach the the contact disk on the naked ankle” until you feel better; “the colder the water the better the cure”
5. it comes with a “114-paged instruction manual”.
Yeah, it's scary looking but only if it could do what it promises! "To cure all form of Disease quickly, intangibly, pleasantly, infallibly, during sleep or while awake; and to brace the human system in all conditions, with Animation never known and not otherwise attained, whether in Disease of Debility, or in Fatique, and in all Physical and Mental Ordeals".