Radiothor
date: label: Date made
content: 1925 - 1932
name: label: maker
content: Bailey Radium Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: The indications or uses for this product as provided by the manufacturer are: Cure for dyspepsia, high blood pressure, arthritis, impotence, decreased libido, frigidity, and other "endocrinologic" maladies.
label: Description
content: Glass jar with paper label that reads in part “RADITHOR / CERTIFIED / Radioactive Water / Contains / Radium and Mesothorium / in Triple Distilled Water” and “Prepared and / Guaranteed by / BAILEY RADIUM / LABORATORIES / 336 Main Street, / East Orange, N. J.” William John Aloysius Bailey (1884–1949) was a Harvard College dropout who promoted radium as a cure for many common ailments.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Merril Eisenbud, 82, Safety Expert Known for Work on Atomic Energy,” New York Times (Aug. 21, 1997), p. D19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Rheumatism & Arthritis Drugs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Balm of America
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Merril Eisenbud, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0284.02
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0284.02
label: accession number
content: 1986.0284
objectType: label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
label: Object Name
content: otc preparation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: radium (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: mesothorium (drug active ingredients)
label: Physical Description
content: water, triple distilled (drug active ingredients)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.4 cm x 3.1 cm; 2 17/32 in x 1 7/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 1/4 in; 6.6675 cm x 3.175 cm