Object Details
- Bailey Radium Laboratories
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Cure for dyspepsia, high blood pressure, arthritis, impotence, decreased libido, frigidity, and other "endocrinologic" maladies.
- Glass jar with paper label that reads in part “RADITHOR / CERTIFIED / Radioactive Water / Contains / Radium and Mesothorium / in Triple Distilled Water” and “Prepared and / Guaranteed by / BAILEY RADIUM / LABORATORIES / 336 Main Street, / East Orange, N. J.” William John Aloysius Bailey (1884–1949) was a Harvard College dropout who promoted radium as a cure for many common ailments.
- Ref: “Merril Eisenbud, 82, Safety Expert Known for Work on Atomic Energy,” New York Times (Aug. 21, 1997), p. D19.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Merril Eisenbud, M.D.
- 1925 - 1932
- ID Number
- 1986.0284.02
- catalog number
- 1986.0284.02
- accession number
- 1986.0284
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- otc preparation
- Physical Description
- radium (drug active ingredients)
- mesothorium (drug active ingredients)
- water, triple distilled (drug active ingredients)
- Measurements
- overall: 6.4 cm x 3.1 cm; 2 17/32 in x 1 7/32 in
- overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 6.6675 cm x 3.175 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Balm of America
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs
- Record ID
- nmah_1292455
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-c10a-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
