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A treatise on the special diseases of women and their electropathic treatment / The Medical Battery Company Limited.

Advertisements from page 319 (inside back cover?) of the 1 May 1885 issue of The young ladies' journal. The Electropathic Belt is promoted for rheumatism, indigestion, lumbago, sciatica, paralysis, epilepsy, constipation, nervous debility, impaired vitality and hysteria. C.B. Harness appears to have been in charge of both the Pall Mall Electric Association (21 Holborn Viaduct, London) and the Medical Battery Company (205 Regent Street, London).

The attention of ladies is directed to the unvarying efficacy of the Electropathic Belt of the Pall Mall Electric Association ... : Dr. Carter Moffat's Ammoniaphone, Harness' patent for voice cultivation, and the cure of asthma, bronchitis, and all pulmonary affections ... / Pall Mall Electric Association ; C.. Harness, the Medical Battery Co.

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.

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

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.

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, trusses and an Electro-dental department are also advertised.

1 folded sheet (4 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm

All in search of health, strength & vitality should wear Harness' electropathic belt : it imparts new life and vigour / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.

Hair care ephemera. Box 8.

Don't wear out your hair brush : use the patent hair brush cleaner ... it saves the bristles. No washing required / C.B. Harness.

Our doctor's note book : interesting extract : health without physic / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.

This is a full colour, chromolitho magazine insert (a single sheet advertisement printed separately then bound in with the magazine at the publisher's) issued in about 1890 by the Electropathic & Zander Institute (which offered electricity based therapies, founded by Cornelius Bennett Harness in 1885), based above the Medical Battery Company’s showrooms at 52, Oxford Street, London, both of which are illustrated towards the foot of the advertisement. It advertises their Electropathic Belts. Electricity was something new and strange to the general public and was seized upon in many ways for commercial and therapeutic purposes. The belts were supposed to generate new life and vigor... for weak men, for delicate women as well as cure nervousness, debility, sleeplessness, rheumatism, sciatica, lumbago, torpid liver, organic weakness and kindred ailments but actually produced no sensation whatsoever, despite testimonies from Dr. Herbert Tibbits and Dr. Arthur Harries on the reverse. They were supposed to be charged by being plugged into a device incorporating a magnet. A combination of disreputable retail practices and the fact that their electropathic belts did not work, increasingly embroiled the Company in litigation until a compulsory winding up order was handed to them in 1894.

Clothing ephemera. Box 1

All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belts : scientifically constructed for new life and vigor / C.B. Harness.

Electrisation as a remedy for the diseases of women : having special reference to menstrual irregularity and other disorders of the uterine system / by C.B. Harness.

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A treatise on the special diseases of women and their electropathic treatment / The Medical Battery Company Limited.

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.

All in search of health, strength & vitality should wear Harness' electropathic belt : it imparts new life and vigour / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.

Don't wear out your hair brush : use the patent hair brush cleaner ... it saves the bristles. No washing required / C.B. Harness.

Our doctor's note book : interesting extract : health without physic / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.

All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belts : scientifically constructed for new life and vigor / C.B. Harness.

Electrisation as a remedy for the diseases of women : having special reference to menstrual irregularity and other disorders of the uterine system / by C.B. Harness.

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A treatise on the special diseases of women and their electropathic treatment / The Medical Battery Company Limited.

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.

All in search of health, strength & vitality should wear Harness' electropathic belt : it imparts new life and vigour / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.

Don't wear out your hair brush : use the patent hair brush cleaner ... it saves the bristles. No washing required / C.B. Harness.

Our doctor's note book : interesting extract : health without physic / The Medical Battery Co., Ltd.

All in search of health should wear Harness' electropathic belts : scientifically constructed for new life and vigor / C.B. Harness.

Electrisation as a remedy for the diseases of women : having special reference to menstrual irregularity and other disorders of the uterine system / by C.B. Harness.

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