Vita Radium Suppositories
Produced by the Home Products Company of Denver, Colorado, these suppositories were guaranteed to contain real radium - and probably did.
From the company's brochure:
Weak Discouraged Men! =))
Now Bubble Over with Joyous Vitality
Through the Use of
Glands and Radium
". . . properly functioning glands make themselves known in a quick, brisk step, mental alertness and the ability to live and love in the fullest sense of the word . . . A man must be in a bad way indeed to sit back and be satisfied without the pleasures that are his birthright! . . . Try them and see what good results you get!" =))
Sources:
http://io9.com/5642377/in-the-early-1900s-real-men-used-radium-suppositories
http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/quackcures/radsup.htm
Yeah there was a while when they put radium in pretty much everything. Radioactive was a good word and basically considered a miracle cure. Radium infused toothpaste comes to mind as well as radioactive condoms of all things!
ReplyDeleteHow come there aren't more Superheroes named Radioactive Assman??!! :P
ReplyDeleteBecause Ironman still works at the butt- recharger ?!? =))
ReplyDeleteReal men have glowing prostates.
ReplyDeleteHa! what are you saying Brer Rabid ? Duracell effect sounds crappiolli?
ReplyDeleteIn the town where my parents live there is a mineral spring that was advertised for the "curative" properties of its radioactive waters. The water was (is) still mildly radioactive (there is a uranium mine nearby). The beginning of the XX century were indeed times when radioactivity was like superpower magic!
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ReplyDeleteThe counterintuitive theory of Radiation Hormesis is noteworthy here:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
More general theory of Hormesis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
Is that as safe as the xray prostate probe? LOL!
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