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Grahams Celestial Bed
Type: Medical Quackery. Summary: During the eighteenth century, James Graham advertised an “electric bed” as a cure-all. A practitioner of Electric Medicine at work. From Johann Gottlieb Schaeffer, Die electrische Medicin (Regensburg, 1766).James Graham was one of the most notorious quacks of the 18th century. He was also extremely popular,…
History of the Bathtub
Type: Hoax. Summary: A widely circulated tale claimed that Americans were initially reluctant to use bathtubs when they were introduced during the mid-nineteenth century. On December 28, 1917 the journalist Henry L. Mencken published an article in the New York Evening Mail titled “A Neglected Anniversary.” It described the curious…
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Grahams Celestial Bed
Type: Medical Quackery. Summary: During the eighteenth century, James Graham advertised an “electric bed” as a cure-all. A practitioner of Electric Medicine at work. From Johann Gottlieb Schaeffer, Die electrische Medicin (Regensburg, 1766).James Graham was one of the most notorious quacks of the 18th century. He was also extremely popular,…
History of the Bathtub
Type: Hoax. Summary: A widely circulated tale claimed that Americans were initially reluctant to use bathtubs when they were introduced during the mid-nineteenth century. On December 28, 1917 the journalist Henry L. Mencken published an article in the New York Evening Mail titled “A Neglected Anniversary.” It described the curious…
