Antique Formaldehyde Gas Medical Generator

Description

Antique medical device used to disinfect rooms af
ter and illness or death.  Manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Max Wocher & Son in the last part of the 19th C.  See advertising in photos.  This unit has not been cleaned and is in original found condition in Kentucky. This unit was purchased 20 years ago from a retiring doctor in Harrodsburg.Appriased by Skinner for 1500- several years ago
.The upper canister was filled  with formaldehyde  and the burner was filled with kerosene.