Radium ore Revigator

The radium ore Revigator was a pseudoscientific medical device consisting of a ceramic water crock lined with radioactive materials.

[1] Thomas was working at the time as a stock salesman in Arizona[2] but, by 1923, had moved to southern California to begin manufacture of his patent.

In 1924, following several successful advertisement campaigns that left him unable to keep up with demand, he sold his operation to Dow-Herriman Pump & Machinery Company, selling thousands of the devices in the 1920s and 1930s.

[3] The Revigator was intended to be filled with water overnight, which would be irradiated by the uranium and radium in the liner, and then consumed the next day.

Although the water contained high levels of radon, a Mount St. Mary's University study posited that the health risk from radiation was probably low relative to the other causes of mortality at the time.