They include violet ray wands, magnetos, and something called the Elec-Treat mechanical heart, a handheld device that could ... US government for making bogus medical claims.

Take a stroll through the exhibits of antique medical devices in the International Museum of Surgical Science on Lake Shore Drive, and your mind might conjure forth images worthy of the 1988 movie ...

where Auction Kings is filmed, shared her take on the quack medical device. Cindy showed the world that she is a better and braver woman than I am as she put the Vitapulser to the test.

Shiver me timbers: Archaeologists have unveiled some unnerving medical tools found amid the wreckage of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge. Linda Carnes-McNaughton, a volunteer archaeologist on ...