Stories
- Article
The house of Joan
The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.
- Article
Fashion for an unruly body
One weekend, just before an operation to correct her scoliosis, Rosalind Jana stopped trying to hide her body. Read how those two days helped her step into the future.
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
Catalogue
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All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belts : scientifically constructed for new life and vigor / C.B. Harness.
Harness, C. B.Date: [1890?]- Ephemera
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
All in search of health, strength & vitality should wear Harness' electropathic belt : it imparts new life and vigour / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.
Date: [1891?]- Ephemera
All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belt : for suffering men & women : for nervous exhaustion, neuralgia, rheumatism, indigestion, sleeplessness, ladies ailments &c. it imparts new life and vigour / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.
Date: [1893?]- Ephemera
Electricity in failing health : men and women of all ages, and in all stations of life should stop taking poisonous medicines and drugs, and simply wear Dr. Carter Moffat's energizing feather-weight electric body belt / Dr. Carter Moffat.
Moffat, Carter.Date: [1891?]