35. Everyday Radium: Radiendocrinator
Back in the 1930s, if you had $150 lying around you could go out and buy yourself your very own radiendocrinator! Radiencrinator is a small device that was placed over male’s endocrine glands to expose them to radium for therapeutic purposes. The goal of this product was to stimulate sexual virility.
Men were advised to wear it as an ‘athletic strap’ to reap the full benefit. The creator, William J. Bailey, had so much faith in his product and claimed that he used it regularly. Bailey had also ingested obscene amounts of radium water over the course of his lifetime, and he passed in 1949 of bladder cancer.