Sun Kraft Sun Lamp, Model A-1
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
notes: label: Description
content: Frank Furedy was an American who in the 1940s, with a Canadian patent in hand, began manufacturing cold quartz, mercury vapor lamps. Advertisements boasted that his Sun Kraft Ultra-Violet Ray Lamps were “A Promoter and Preserver of Good Health.”
label: Description
content: The FDA seized this example around 1950, and charged the firm with misbranding. Statements in the accompanying booklet "How to Use Your Sun-Kraft" were deemed false and misleading. These statements suggested that the device was effective in treating a number of skin diseases, such as acne, psoriasis, eczema, and for treating scalp conditions, skin tuberculosis, skin ulcers and slow healing wounds. See FDA Notice of Judgment No. 3537, Filed January 24, 1951.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.274347.022
label: accession number
content: 274347
label: catalog number
content: M-12030
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Therapeutic Lamp
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42 cm; 16 17/32 in