Comments on: FOR HEALTH Breathe Terpezone (Feb, 1937)

By: Gregory

Gregory — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:49:36 +0000

I checked 23 S. Jefferson Street in Google Maps… it’s now a parking garage for the Presidential Towers. Whatever building was there seventy years ago is long, long gone.

That feels sort of sad, in a way.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:41:45 +0000

No I took the leap and reached that conclusion all by my lonesome. The claim that breathing the emanations of this gadget would treat ALL respiratory ailments, anemia and high blood pressure was like my first clue.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:30:54 +0000

Today, Ozone is considered a pollutant.
(Unless it is in the upper atmosphere.)

I don’t see the word ‘quackery’ in the articles Firebrand38 quotes.

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:27:44 +0000

This was also promoted as a “cure” for tuberculosis.

A color picture can be found at http://www.thebakken.org/artif.....38;id=1187

The US Patent Office actually issued a patent for this nonsense in 1911 http://www.google.com/patents?.....=terpezone and for an improved version in 1930 http://www.thebakken.org/artif.....38;id=1187