Hemovitameter
notes: label: Description
content: The Hemovitameter is an electro-mechanical device designed by Harley D. Niblack (1892-1966), a Denver chiropractor, and sold by the Niblack Laboratories, also of Denver. It was on the market by 1936. One account termed it “a modern diagnostic instrument, using the radionic principle to locate and measure disease in the body, its chemical deficiencies and food needed.” The F.D.A. seized this example in the early 1960s, claiming that the “labeling failed to bear adequate directions for use for the purposes and conditions for which it was intended.” One inscription reads "Intensity Vita-meter Visceral - General." Another reads “Hemovitameter.”
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.274347.092
label: accession number
content: 274347
label: catalog number
content: M-12100
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leatherette (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 105 cm x 36 cm x 94.5 cm; 41 11/32 in x 14 3/16 in x 37 7/32 in