Heading: (Medical – Electric Belt, 1878)
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Title: Pulvermacher’s Electro-Galvanic Chain-Belts, 1878 advertising booklet
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Date Published: 1878
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Electricity / Natures Chief Restorer / Pulvermacher's Electro-Galvanic Chain-Belts etc. Self-applicabel for the cure of Nervous and Chronic Diseases without Medicine (Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., NY, 1878) 5 x 7.5 ins., 32pp. in original decorative wrappers. Illustrated with some line drawings and facsimiles of testimonial letters.

Patented in 1853 by a Viennese Doctor, the "electric belt" was a battery-powered flexible series of linked cells worn wrapped around parts of the body as a form of the new medical treatment called "electrotherapy". It was particularly popular with quack practitioners, and was therefore denigrated by the medical establishment, but even respectable physicians (whose names were sometimes used in Company ads without permission) had to admit that the Belt had some scientific usefulness. Scarce. WorldCat locates an 1876 edition in only one American institution.

Some staple rust, top right corners are curled otherwise very good.