Therm-Massage Infra-Red Heat Applicator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1948
notes: label: Description
content: Sibert & Co., of New Jersey, boasted that its Therm-Massage Infra-Red Heat Applicator was an “Amazing New Scientific Invention [that] Uses Powerful Infra-Red Heat plus massage.” The FDA brought suit in 1950, alleging faulty claims. It transferred this example to the Smithsonian in 1967.
label: Description
content: Ref: Sibert & Co., advertisement in <i>Popular Science</i> (Jan. 1948): 64.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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.274347.116
label: catalog number
content: M-12124
label: accession number
content: 274347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Infra-Red Heat Applicator
label: Object Name
content: massager, heated
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (?? material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: plastic (sheet of instructions material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: rubber (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 3 in x 6 1/2 in; 6.0325 cm x 7.62 cm x 16.51 cm