A particularly dangerous radium quack cure from 1920

A century ago, radium was the most valuable substance on Earth and was in high demand for revolutionary medical uses (particularly, external radiation therapy for cancers). But quacks also had a field day, selling everything from toothpaste to suppositories having radium as the supposedly active ingredient. In this video, we take an in-depth look at a type of device called an “emanator“ that was designed to charge drinking water with radon and was definitely on the more radioactive side. Sales pitches co