Heat Cradle
notes: label: Description
content: John Harvey Kellogg claimed that he constructed the first incandescent light bath in 1891. “After it was used in the treatment of some thousands of patients in the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a bath was exhibited at the Chicago Exposition in 1893. Mr. Gehardt, a visitor from Germany, saw the bath, visited Battle Creek to become familiar with the technique of its use, and on returning to Germany began, with the ‘Sanitas’ Co. of Berlin, its manufacture and sale in that country. German medical men and financiers soon recognized the value of the method.”
label: Description
content: This light bath belonged to Martin Regensteiner, a German-Jewish physician who moved to the United States in 1938. An inscription reads “Sanitas, Berlin N. #10230 / 220V / Electricitats-Gesellschaft Sanitas.”
label: Description
content: Ref: John Harvey Kellogg, Light Therapeutics (Battle Creek, 1910), preface.
label: Description
content: “Henry Regensteiner,” New York Times (May 31, 2017), p. B15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. Henry Regensteiner in memory of Martin Regensteiner, M.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.313050.05
label: catalog number
content: 313050.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Box, Light
label: Object Name
content: heat-light box
label: Other Terms
content: Box, Light; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 17 1/2 in x 23 5/8 in; 43.18 cm x 44.45 cm x 60.0075 cm