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1940s or 1950s Pathoclast Quack Medical Device Machine - $1,200 (aptos)
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The machine has been removed from the desk. The desk is not included. The machine includes the original nameplate, numerous documents such as memos from Louise Hieronymus, including "Experimental Special Data Bulletin" from Radiation Laboratories, Inc. dated March, 1948, patient diagnoses, and the 1948 Thanksgiving program for the meeting of the Universal Society of Pathometrists.
Also included is a banker's box full of spare parts, tubes, accessories, etc. for the Pathoclast.
"The Pathoclast is a “radionics” medical device introduced in 1916, classified as a “quack medical device” by the Food and Drug Administration in the 1960s. It operates by detecting and “cancelling out” the airborne vibrations of various ailments. Without even leaving the privacy of his or her own office, a doctor is able to diagnose any disease imaginable-from cancer to warts-with the diagnostic curative powers of the Pathoclast. If a photograph, blood sample, or human hair of an off-site patient, or a faraway diseased wheat field, is placed by a doctor in the well of the Pathoclast, the machine will detect the “ill” radiation, send out the machine’s own counteractive “wellness-bringing,” airborne, non-specific radiation, to “cure” the corresponding patient. This invention recently has enjoyed a resurgence of use by non-physicians, echoing enthusiasm with unknown, vague, airborne energy-flows which were popularized in 2006 in the self-help movie “The Secret”-which posited that a person’s thoughts emanate, and may attract or repel good events (including disease cures) to enter their lives if they just “ask, believe, and receive.” From an essay on the history of the Pathoclast."
Local pickup only near Santa Cruz, California. San Francisco Bay Area delivery available.
$1200 obo