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Bob McCoy. World-renowned expert on Medical Quackery and Health Fraud, and founder of The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices. (which is now located at the Science Museum of Minnesota) Robert W. McCoy. 1927-2010. Bob McCoy passed away on May 23, 2010. after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. (Bob's Obituary) WELCOME TO THE MUSEUM OF QUESTIONABLE MEDICAL DEVICES Welcome to the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Online! Founder Bob McCoy retired and closed the St. Anthony Main location of the museum in 2002, donating his devices to the Science Museum of Minnesota, which still displays a number of items in their Collections Gallery.MuseumofQuackery.com features all of the items Bob had on display, many of which are alsoTHE TIMELY WARNING
"PREVENTS NIGHT EMISSIONS BY AROUSING THE WEARER" large image 44K. previous next. Photo by B. and J. Gaukel. Section of Timely Warning pamphlet from the American Medical Association's Historical Health Fraud & Alternative Medicine Collection..THE RELAXACISOR
u.s. department of health, education, and welfare public health service food and drug administration washington, d.c. 20204. 71-1 .for release:
GAS GRILL INGNITERS: THE STIMULATOR AND THE CRYSTALDYNE The Stimulator is essentially an electric gas barbecue grill igniter outfitted with finger grips. When pressed against the skin, the devices sparks and causes a small electric shock. Makers of the device claim it can relieve headaches, back pain, arthritis, stress, menstrual cramps, earaches, sinus, nosebleeds, flu and other ailments. TRICHO SYSTEM: X-RAY DEPILATORY Tricho System In the early 1920's the Tricho System used x-rays to remove superfluous hair. By 1925 there were over 75 installations of the Tricho machines in beauty shops across the country including Minneapolis and Duluth.PROSTATE CURES
Prostate Gland Warmer, 1918. The prostate gland warmer promised to " stimulate the abdominal brain !" The device consists of a 4.25 inch probe and a blue light bulb in a socket on a nine foot cord. When plugged in, the light bulb lit up. HEIDELBERG ALTERNATING CURRENT ELECTRIC BELT Heidelberg Alternating Current Electric Belt ca. 1900. FOR NERVOUS DISEASES of all kinds in men and women, to reach the nerve centers for the cure of all nervous disorders the Heidelberg Electric Belt stands alone. For weakness in men and women, personal exhaustion bringing back lost strength and power, over brain work, vital , impotency, rheumatism, sciatica, lame back, railroad back DINSHAH P. GHADIALI AND SPECTROCHROME THERAPY Dinshah P. Ghadiali and Spectro-Chrome Therapy Spectro-Chrome Therapy "The Latest Effort in the Healing Art" by the AMA Bureau of Investigation. Now comes into the field Colonel Dinshah P. Ghadiali, exponent of "Spectro-Chrome Therapy" and founder of the "Spectro-Chrome Institute."Ghadiali has an appalling list of titles. BATTLE CREEK VIBRATORY CHAIR In the early 20th century, the Battle Creek Sanitarium was one of the most famous health resorts in the world. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was the chief of staff; his brother Will Keith Kellogg was the San's bookkeeper. From their diet program came Kellogg's Corn Flakes; from the mechanotherapy department came the vibratory chair. MUSEUMOFQUACKERY.COM : BOB MCCOY: FOUNDER OF THE THEGREAT AMERICAN QUACKSDEVICE COLLECTIONEPHEMERA COLLECTIONSQUACK LINKSGIFT SHOPVIDEOVAULT
Bob McCoy. World-renowned expert on Medical Quackery and Health Fraud, and founder of The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices. (which is now located at the Science Museum of Minnesota) Robert W. McCoy. 1927-2010. Bob McCoy passed away on May 23, 2010. after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. (Bob's Obituary) WELCOME TO THE MUSEUM OF QUESTIONABLE MEDICAL DEVICES Welcome to the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Online! Founder Bob McCoy retired and closed the St. Anthony Main location of the museum in 2002, donating his devices to the Science Museum of Minnesota, which still displays a number of items in their Collections Gallery.MuseumofQuackery.com features all of the items Bob had on display, many of which are alsoTHE TIMELY WARNING
"PREVENTS NIGHT EMISSIONS BY AROUSING THE WEARER" large image 44K. previous next. Photo by B. and J. Gaukel. Section of Timely Warning pamphlet from the American Medical Association's Historical Health Fraud & Alternative Medicine Collection..THE RELAXACISOR
u.s. department of health, education, and welfare public health service food and drug administration washington, d.c. 20204. 71-1 .for release:
GAS GRILL INGNITERS: THE STIMULATOR AND THE CRYSTALDYNE The Stimulator is essentially an electric gas barbecue grill igniter outfitted with finger grips. When pressed against the skin, the devices sparks and causes a small electric shock. Makers of the device claim it can relieve headaches, back pain, arthritis, stress, menstrual cramps, earaches, sinus, nosebleeds, flu and other ailments. TRICHO SYSTEM: X-RAY DEPILATORY Tricho System In the early 1920's the Tricho System used x-rays to remove superfluous hair. By 1925 there were over 75 installations of the Tricho machines in beauty shops across the country including Minneapolis and Duluth.PROSTATE CURES
Prostate Gland Warmer, 1918. The prostate gland warmer promised to " stimulate the abdominal brain !" The device consists of a 4.25 inch probe and a blue light bulb in a socket on a nine foot cord. When plugged in, the light bulb lit up. HEIDELBERG ALTERNATING CURRENT ELECTRIC BELT Heidelberg Alternating Current Electric Belt ca. 1900. FOR NERVOUS DISEASES of all kinds in men and women, to reach the nerve centers for the cure of all nervous disorders the Heidelberg Electric Belt stands alone. For weakness in men and women, personal exhaustion bringing back lost strength and power, over brain work, vital , impotency, rheumatism, sciatica, lame back, railroad back DINSHAH P. GHADIALI AND SPECTROCHROME THERAPY Dinshah P. Ghadiali and Spectro-Chrome Therapy Spectro-Chrome Therapy "The Latest Effort in the Healing Art" by the AMA Bureau of Investigation. Now comes into the field Colonel Dinshah P. Ghadiali, exponent of "Spectro-Chrome Therapy" and founder of the "Spectro-Chrome Institute."Ghadiali has an appalling list of titles. BATTLE CREEK VIBRATORY CHAIR In the early 20th century, the Battle Creek Sanitarium was one of the most famous health resorts in the world. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was the chief of staff; his brother Will Keith Kellogg was the San's bookkeeper. From their diet program came Kellogg's Corn Flakes; from the mechanotherapy department came the vibratory chair. WELCOME TO THE MUSEUM OF QUESTIONABLE MEDICAL DEVICES Welcome to the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices Online! Founder Bob McCoy retired and closed the St. Anthony Main location of the museum in 2002, donating his devices to the Science Museum of Minnesota, which still displays a number of items in their Collections Gallery.MuseumofQuackery.com features all of the items Bob had on display, many of which are also BOB MCCOY: FOUNDER OF THE THE MUSEUM OF QUESTIONABLE MuseumOfQuackery.com. This is the website for Bob McCoy. World-renowned expert on Medical Quackery and Health Fraud, and founder of The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices. (which is now located at the Science Museum of Minnesota) Robert W. McCoy THE NATURAL EYE SIGHT SYSTEM This 1930's ad was produced by the Natural Eyesight Institute manufacturer of the Natural Eye Normalizer, a metal device finished in chrome with rubber gaskets fitting the eyes. The device came with five booklets describing treatments and containing logs to record eyeexcercises.
THE MUSEUM OF QUESTIONABLE MEDICAL DEVICES Quack Links BOB CONTEMPORARY QUACKBUSTERS HISTORY COLLECTION AND CARE EPHEMERA AND GRAPHICS MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES AND EXHIBITS TOPICS - MORE LINK LISTS ON-SITE. Bob McCoy and The Musueum of Questionable Medical Devices. BBC News: "Museum of Health Madness" July 7, 2003 ; Beaver County Times: "Whacked Out Cures" - June 13, 1995* Calhoun Times:"Medical Chicanery
THE TIMELY WARNING
"PREVENTS NIGHT EMISSIONS BY AROUSING THE WEARER" large image 44K. previous next. Photo by B. and J. Gaukel. Section of Timely Warning pamphlet from the American Medical Association's Historical Health Fraud & Alternative Medicine Collection.. THE GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD: OVERVIEW James Harvey Young recounts in his book The Toadstool Millionaires the editor of Colliers, Norman Hapgood, became so affronted by the fraud and effrontery of the patent medicine business, that he decided on a major campaign to expose them. He sought out a reporter capable of digging out the facts and writing a hard-hitting full scale exposure of medical quackery. MICRODYNAMETER TYPE A This 'Scientific' looking but worthless machine was falsely advertised as having great diagnostic properties and the ability to cure many diseases and conditions. The copper dishes on the lower part of the cabinet were rubbed by the patient and the operator manipulated the dials above to provide a roving beam of light from the string galvanometer to the top curved gauge.PROSTATE CURES
Prostate Gland Warmer, 1918. The prostate gland warmer promised to " stimulate the abdominal brain !" The device consists of a 4.25 inch probe and a blue light bulb in a socket on a nine foot cord. When plugged in, the light bulb lit up. BATTLE CREEK VIBRATORY CHAIR In the early 20th century, the Battle Creek Sanitarium was one of the most famous health resorts in the world. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was the chief of staff; his brother Will Keith Kellogg was the San's bookkeeper. From their diet program came Kellogg's Corn Flakes; from the mechanotherapy department came the vibratory chair. GREAT AMERICAN FRAUD: THE SUBTLE POISONS, DEC. 2 1905 Collier's for December 2 1905 . The Great American Fraud. By SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS IV-The Subtle Poisons Drugs That Deprave. Another acquaintance writes me that he is unable to dissuade his wife from the constant use of both Orangeine and Bromo-Selzer, although her COME ONE! COME ALL !! DEVIOUS DISPLAYS OF QUACKERY, FRAUD, DECEIT AND DECEPTION! THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF MEDICAL CHICANERY AND MAYHEM EVER ASSEMBLEDUNDER ONE ROOF !!!
STEP RIGHT UP !! ......... SOUND LIKE A CARNIVAL BARKER? A SNAKE OIL SALESMAN? A SIDESHOW SHILL? WELL, YOU'RE CLOSE ....._It's the
_Museum of QuestionableMedical Devices
PROPRIETOR BOB MCCOY WAS A VERITABLE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE WORLD'S MOST INANE AND USELESS INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO CURE AND/OR COMPREHEND WHAT MAY AIL OR PUZZLE YOU. AUTHOR OF QUACK!: TALES OF MEDICAL FRAUD FROM THE MUSEUM OF QUESTIONABLE MEDICAL DEVICES,
HE'S THE GUY PICTURED AT LEFT GETTING A "PHRENOLOGY" READING ON A "PSYCOGRAPH " (THE MACHINE MEASURES THE SIZE OF BUMPS ON THE HEAD TO DETERMINE HIS PERSONALITY). THE READING LETS YOU KNOW HOW YOU'RE DOING ON ANY OF 35 CHARACTER TRAITS LIKE INTELLIGENCE, SPIRITUALITY,SUAVITY AND CHASTITY (ALL THE BUMPS CAN BE MAPPED --ABOVE RIGHT).
DUBBED "THE QUACKERY HALL OF FAME" BY THE COPLEY WIRE SERVICE, THE MUSEUM WAS THE WORLD'S LARGEST DISPLAY OF WHAT THE HUMAN MIND HAS DEVISED TO CURE ITSELF WITHOUT THE BENEFIT OF EITHER SCIENTIFIC METHOD OR COMMON SENSE. IT COMPRISED THE MAJOR COLLECTIONS ON LOAN FROM THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, THE ST. LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER, THE BAKKEN LIBRARY, THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AGAINST HEALTH FRAUD. THE FAMED COLLECTION WAS DONATED TO THE SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA IN 2002 WITH ITEMS FEATURED IN THEIR COLLECTIONS GALLERY UNTIL 2016 WHEN THE ENTIRE COLLECTION WAS PUT ON DISPLAY IN THEIR FANTASTIC WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE EXHIBIT. VIEW PHOTOS OF OUR RIVERPLACE AND ST. ANTHONY MAIN LOCATIONS HERE.
A SAMPLING OF THE AMAZINGLY USELESS GADGETS THAT AWAIT YOU: _"A few volts of electricity appropriately applied will put the sparks back into your love life!" , says McCoy holding a machine that claimed to increase virility (and cure prostate problems)._
_And for the ladies
... a foot powered breast enlarger!!_
THEN WE HAVE SOAP THAT SUDSES OFF POUNDS. AND IF THE SOAP DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU, HOW ABOUT A PAIR OF WEIGHT REDUCTION GLASSES ? STAND IN FRONT OF LIGHTS FLASHING PRISMATIC COLORS THAT "GUARANTEE" HEALTH AND WELL BEING. EXPOSE YOURSELF TO THE "MAGIC" OF RADIO WAVES ... YES, QUACKERY IS ALIVE AND WELL ON THE BANKS OF THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI........ SEE FOR YOURSELF, STOP IN AND "TAKE THE CURE!"TOUR THE MUSEUM
Watch Bob McCoy's TV appearances in our:Video Vault
Learn the stories of Great American Quacks Check out our on-lineDevice Collection
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BOB MCCOY
WORLD-RENOWNED EXPERT ON MEDICAL QUACKERY AND HEALTH FRAUD, AND FOUNDER OF _THE MUSEUM OF QUESTIONABLE MEDICAL DEVICES_. (WHICH IS NOW LOCATED AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA)
ROBERT W. MCCOY
1927-2010
BOB MCCOY PASSED AWAY ON MAY 23, 2010 AFTER A LONG BATTLE WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.(BOB'S OBITUARY
)
BOB LIVED A LIFE DEDICATED TO EXPOSING NONSENSE AND PSEUDO-SCIENCE, WHILE ADVOCATING RATIONAL LIVING AND HUMANIST IDEALS. Please help us keep his principles alive! Quack!: Tales of Medical Fraud from the Museum of Questionable MedicalDevices
__Named
"Best Collection"
by Minnesota Monthly in their Best of the Twin Cities issueNovember 2013__
__Also named one of the 18 Weirdest Museums in the Worldby FOX NEWS
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THE MUSEUM OF QUESTIONABLE MEDICAL DEVICES CLICK HERE TO CONTACT WEBMASTER BY EMAIL MAY 2010, STAR TRIBUNE : BOB MCCOY OBITUARYAND NEWS STORY
ST. ANTHONY MAIN LOCATION CLOSED AS OF JANUARY 2002. COLLECTION CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY IN ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM'S "WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE " EXHIBIT. READ AND LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF AMERICA ARTICLE ABOUT BOB MCCOY'SRETIREMENT HERE
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