Electric chest and lung protector

Quacks and quackery

Electric machinery--Therapeutic use

Alternative medicine--Equipment and supplies

Quackery

Complementary Therapies--instrumentation

Quackery

Image 101-1500

Used to prevent diseases of the chest and lung through a "Voltaic Galvanic Principle".

A pink cloth vest with 20 metal buttons on the front and another 20 buttons on the back side of the vest. Used to place over the back and chest area. One shoulder has a tie to adjust to the size of the patient. Reportedly, the protective electrical current was activated via the secretions of the body as one came into contact with the metal discs of the device.

Electric Appliance Co. (Burlington, Kan.)

McGuire Medical Instruments Collection

Health Sciences Library

State University of New York at Buffalo

Early 20th cent.

Michael Gordon (Firm)

Cravens, Annette

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22x34.5 cm

Quackery

Image

Still image

07.03.15.5

LIB-HSL001

Chest and lung protector

Lung protector

11/4/2009

Cloth and copper