Electronic Medical Device
notes: label: Description
content: In the early 1960s, a federal court barred further distribution of four expensive but worthless medical devices, and a fifth promoted by false claims. One of those devices was the Electronic Model G, manufactured and promoted by Lester L. Roby, Sr., and his son, Lester L. Roby, Jr., doing business as the L. L. Roby Manufacturing Co., of Tiffin, Ohio. The FDA transferred this example to the Smithsonian in 1957.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>FDA Report on Enforcement and Compliance</i> (Jan. 1963), p. 8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Ohio, Tiffin
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.274347.110A-D
label: catalog number
content: M-12118
label: accession number
content: 274347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Device
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leatherette (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood, pine (overall material)