Oxydonor Victory
notes: label: Description
content: Hercules Sanche (1838-1928) was a peripatetic healer who, in the 1890s, obtained patents in Canada, England, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. Sanche also advertised widely. The Oxydonor, he promised, “supplies Oxygen to the blood, and cures disease and pain under Nature’s own laws.” Inscriptions on this example refer to several patents and trademark registrations.
label: Description
content: Ref: Hercules Sanche, <i>How Man Lives And Is Master of Disease</i> (Detroit and Montreal, 1892).
label: Description
content: Hecules Sanche, <i>Oxydonor Victory</i> (1893).
label: Description
content: Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, “The Giver of Oxygen: Hercules Sanche and the Oxydonor,” <i>Journal of Medical Humanities</i> 17 (1996): 31-43.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0165.801
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0165.801
label: accession number
content: 2012.0165
objectType: label: Object Name
content: therapeutic device
label: Object Name
content: quack device
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 2 in x 5 1/2 in x 6 in; 5.08 cm x 13.97 cm x 15.24 cm