Neurolinometer Toftness System
notes: label: Description
content: The Neurolinometer, a device for detecting “subluxations”, was introduced to market in the early 1950s. It was designed by a chiropractor named Irving N. Toftness, manufactured by the Electronic Instrument Co. in Tiffin, Ohio, and distributed at the Toftness Clinic in Cumberland, Wisc. This example, s/n 2677, is one of many seized by the FDA. It was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1967.
label: Description
content: Ref: Irving N. Toftness, <i>Philosophy of Chiropractic Correction</i> (1977).
label: Description
content: <i>FDA Report on Enforcement and Compliance</i> (June 1963), pp. 3-4.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.274347.061
label: accession number
content: 274347
label: catalog number
content: M-12069
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Device
label: Object Name
content: neurolinometer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leatherette (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood plastic (overall material)