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ANTIQUE 1911-1915
ANTIQUE 1911-1915
ANTIQUE 1911-1915
ANTIQUE 1911-1915

ANTIQUE 1911-1915 "QUACK" MEDICINE OXYPATHOR RED CROSS BLOOD CELLULOID PINBACK

$ 29.04

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: Good, with some wear and color fading, but still ok for about 100 years old.
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Color: Red
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Time Period Manufactured: Pre-1930
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back

    Description

    RARE, ANTIQUE 1911-1915 "QUACK" MEDICINE OXYPATHOR RED CROSS BLOOD CELLULOID PINBACK.
    This must have been an Advertising/ Promotional Pinback Button for the Quack Unit.
    Oxypathor was a ‘quack’ device designed by E. L. Moses of Buffalo United States. It allowed the body to absorb extra oxygen via a cord attached to the wrist and ankle. Attached to this cord and placed in a bowl of water was a sealed metal cylinder containing sand or carbon, or sometimes nothing. The all-curing device supposedly helped conditions such as diphtheria, blood disorders, catarrh, kidney trouble, heart trouble, gallstones, blood poisoning, pneumonia, typhoid fever and ‘most forms of paralysis.’ The American Post Office Department won a criminal fraud case against Moses in 1915. He was sentenced to 18 months in jail for promoting quack devices.