Perfect Duluth Day

Let’s get baked … in the human bake-oven

Roasting in Human Bake Ovens 17Dec1910

The above article is from the Dec. 17, 1910, Duluth News Tribune.

Below: Manual of the Human Bake-Oven, Lancaster Sanitarium, which the Grant County Historical Society describes as “a brochure for the Lancaster Sanitarium which was operated by Dr. William J. Schade, 1875-1951, a chiropractor and physical culturist. Brochure features the Human Bake-Oven, which was a popular device used to treat a variety of ailments.”