Spectrochrome
name: label: Associated Name
content: Ghadiali, Dinshah P.
notes: label: Description
content: Dinshah P. Ghadiali (1873-1966) was a Persian from India who moved to the United States in 1911, introduced the Science of Spectro-Chromemetry, and established the Spectro Chrome Institute in Malaga, N.J. His main idea was that, with the proper use of pure and intense colored light, patients could be cured of almost any disease. In the 1940s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration conducted an exhaustive examination, and a lengthy and costly trial, Ghadiali was convicted of having introduced a misbranded article into interstate commerce. The FDA transferred this example to the Smithsonian in 1967.
label: Description
content: Ref: “All-Curing Device Beaten in Court,” <i>New York Times</i> (June 27, 1945), p. 21.
label: Description
content: Morris Fishbein, “Medical Huckster,” <i>The Atlanta Constitution</i> (Jan. 18, 1948), p. SM18.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.274347.106
label: accession number
content: 274347
label: catalog number
content: M-12114
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Spectro-Chrome
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: sheet metal (overall material)