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Oxydonor

Oxydonor

Health fraud
A pseudotherapeutic device invented at the turn of the 20th century by Heracles Sanche, which he claimed could be used to treat cholera, constipation, hay fever, writer’s cramp and 80 other conditions. The user was required to place the central metal tube, or "Vocor", in a jar of iced water and then attach the the contact disk on the client’s ankle. It was declared worthless by the American Medical Association.
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