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- "Theronoid" Electric Belt, circa 1930 -
- circa 1930
- Collections - Artifact
"Theronoid" Electric Belt, circa 1930
- "Multifrex High-Frequency Instrument" Electrotherapy Machine, circa 1925 -
- circa 1925
- Collections - Artifact
"Multifrex High-Frequency Instrument" Electrotherapy Machine, circa 1925
- Trade Card for "Montgomery's Marvelous Medical Methods," F.W. Montgomery, M.D. & Staff, 1870-1890 - In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- 1870-1890
- Collections - Artifact
Trade Card for "Montgomery's Marvelous Medical Methods," F.W. Montgomery, M.D. & Staff, 1870-1890
In the last third of the nineteenth century, an unprecedented variety of consumer goods and services flooded the American market. Advertisers, armed with new methods of color printing, bombarded potential customers with trade cards. Americans enjoyed and often saved the vibrant little advertisements found in product packages or distributed by local merchants. Many survive as historical records of commercialism in the United States.
- Davis & Kidder's Patent Magneto-Electric Machine, 1875-1885 - Physicians in the late 1800s and early 1900s saw therapeutic possibilities in the use of electricity. A number of doctors believed that medical batteries that administered low levels of electrical stimulation could treat a variety of diseases. Companies marketed and sold these electrotherapeutic devices to doctors and -- to the consternation of some in the medical profession -- average citizens.
- 1875-1885
- Collections - Artifact
Davis & Kidder's Patent Magneto-Electric Machine, 1875-1885
Physicians in the late 1800s and early 1900s saw therapeutic possibilities in the use of electricity. A number of doctors believed that medical batteries that administered low levels of electrical stimulation could treat a variety of diseases. Companies marketed and sold these electrotherapeutic devices to doctors and -- to the consternation of some in the medical profession -- average citizens.
- Theronoid Electric Belt, circa 1928 -
- circa 1928
- Collections - Artifact
Theronoid Electric Belt, circa 1928