Women Had Their Faces X-Rayed for Beauty #Shorts

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In 1924 the Tricho Sales Corporation began installing x-ray machines in beauty salons to remove facial hair. Its medical director was Dr Albert Geyser.

It was advertised as painless and permanent. Women sat in front of the machine again and again for weeks, and the hair did fall out. By 1925 more than 75 salons offered it.

In 1929 the American Medical Association condemned it, and the company collapsed the next year. Years later doctors reported radiation damage and skin cancers on these women’s faces, exactly where the machine had pointed.

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