Halox Therapeutic Generator
notes: label: Description
content: The Halox Therapeutic Generator produced a weak chlorine gas. In 1935, the Rev. Roger Aull (1884-1948), a Passionist priest with a bad lung, visited Emmett L. Harrigan, in Ohio, and saw a Halox machine in operation. After Aull returned to Silver City, New Mexico, Harrigan sent him several machines. Following Harrigan’s death in 1945, his widow gave Aull the exclusive right to manufacture, sell and lease the Halox machines on a royalty basis. Aull then established a small factory on part of the mining claim adjoining his home. The business was known as the Halox Manufacturing Company or, on occasion, the Halox Therapeutic Generator Company. The FDA seized this example, and transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1967.
label: Description
content: The Halox devices were seized and condemned for misbranding Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act, for failing to bear adequate directions for use in the conditions for which they were intended, namely, arthritis, sinusitis, hay fever, bronchitis, neuritis, sciatica, rheumatism, asthma, and nervous disorders.
label: Description
content: Ref: Notices of Judgement Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act, Nos. 03567 (22 devices shipped in 1948), 07917 (1 device shipped in 1958), and 08022 (3 devices shipped in 1945).
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.274347.051
label: accession number
content: 274347
label: catalog number
content: M-12059
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leatherette (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood; pine (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34 cm x 29 cm x 42 cm; 13 3/8 in x 11 13/32 in x 16 17/32 in