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The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Online, Museum of Quackery.com

Welcome to the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices on-line: Museum of Quackery.com! Founder Bob McCoy retired and closed the St. Anthony Main location of the museum in 2002, donating his devices to the Science Museum of Minnesota, which still displays a small number of items in their Collections Gallery. This website features all of the items Bob had on display, many of which are also featured in his book: Quack! Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices. Available autographed in the museum store!

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	See a few of our devices Battle Creek Vibratory Chair Bloodletting Devices Contemporary Quackery Gas Grill Igniters Magnets Electropathy Foot Operated Breast Enlarger McGregor Rejuvenator Micro-Dynameter 1963 Micro-Dynameter Type A Natural Eye Sight System Prostate Cures The Psychograph History of Phrenology and the Psychograph The Radium Case Radium Ore Revigator Relaxacisor Shoe-Fitting X-Ray Device Spectro-Chrome The Timely Warning Toftness Radiation The Vibrometer Violet Ray Generators

Some Ephemeral Papers...

• 1904 Price List for electrical devices with NO electricity?!
• Dr. Bell's Electro Appliance...especially for men
• Crazy Crystals - horse salts eliminate the need for crutches
• Electrovita - water to revitalize
• Heidelberg Electric Belt  
• Images from the 1930's: Health magazine covers
• LaMercey relieves "periodic" distress
• The Tricho System

History Buffs!

The 1905 Colliers magazine series, The Great American Fraud, exposed the patent medicine industry for it's use of addicting cocaine, morphine and alcohol. In 1906, Congress passed the first U.S. Pure Food and Drug Act. See our series overview, editor Norman Hapgood's condemnation of the evils and dangers, and Samuel Hopkins Adams' expose, The Great American Fraud including Part IV: The Subtle Poisons. Caution: text intensive

John Harvey Kellogg Albert Abrams, A.M., M.D., LL.D, F.R.M.S. Radionics: Dr. Crum and the Indiana Supreme Court Light Therapy: Dinshah P. Ghadiali and the Spectro-Chrome Other Sites for Great American Quacks

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