Every man and woman troubled with weak and languid feelings, nervous, rheumatic or organic disorders should wear Harness' electropathic belt / The Medical Battery Company Limited.

Date:
[1890?]
  • Ephemera

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Description

Magazine insert advertising the therapeutic belts available at the Medical Battery Company Limited's Electropathic and Zander Institute. They were supposed to invigorate the debilitated and cure: rheumatism, constipation, palpitation, neuralgia, nervousness, back pain, sciatica, lumbago, obesity, ladies' ailments (menstruation disorders) and impaired vitality (male impotence). Electrolysis for unwanted hair and trusses are also advertised.

Publication/Creation

London : Medical Battery Co., [1890?]

Physical description

1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes

Mr. C.B. Harness was the President of the Company.

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    EPH/131/6/1
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    Closed stores
    EPH/131/6/2

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