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Leaflet advertising the Vibrator Instrument Company's (based in Chattanooga, Tennessee) therapeutic vibrator. Gives a case history of albuminuria treated by vibratory stimulation. The device is illustrated on the reverse.

Electrotherapy & vibrators ephemera. Box 1.

Bulletin. No. 31, Albuminuria / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

Leaflet advertising the Savage Arms Corporation's pedestal-mounted mechanical massage and vibratory manipulation health motor with oscillator belts.

1 folded sheet (6 pages) : illustrations ; 16 cm

Health & beauty at little cost : Savage health motor : exerciser & reducer / Savage Arms Corporation.

Decorative billhead for Dr. C. Rigola's services ("from London, Paris and Nice").

Dr. C. Rigola, artistic coiffure, hair & skin specialist & high class hair manufacturer : advice on the hair & skin free of charge : 5, The Avenue, 7 Victoria Buildings, Bournemouth.

Includes a 2 page article on Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 (NAMRU-2) fighting disease in Asia (trachoma, cholera) and an advertisement for the Post Graduate School of Nursing in Chicago.

Doctor Tom Brent, young intern

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Doctor Tom Brent, young intern. Vol. 1, no. 1, Doctors aren't always doctors.

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152 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Mechanical vibratory stimulation : its theory and application in the treatment of disease / by Maurice F. Pilgrim.

2 pages, 1 leaf of plates : 4 black and white illustrations ; 26 cm

Apparatus for vibratory and electric treatment of the body / Christian Heitman.

Leaflet advertising the Vibrator Instrument Company's (based in Chattanooga, Tennessee) therapeutic vibrator. Gives a case history of deafness treated by vibratory stimulation. The device is illustrated on the reverse.

Bulletin. No. 25, Deafness / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

Leaflet advertising the Vibrator Instrument Company's (based in Chattanooga, Tennessee) therapeutic vibrator. Gives a case history of vomiting in pregnancy treated by vibratory stimulation. The device is illustrated on the reverse.

Bulletin. No. 29, Vomiting in pregnancy / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

Leaflet advertising the Vibrator Instrument Company's (based in Chattanooga, Tennessee) therapeutic vibrator. Gives a case history of muscular rheumatism treated by vibratory stimulation. The device is illustrated on the reverse.

Bulletin. No. 30, Muscular rheumatism / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes leaflets advertising a variety of devices which supply vibration and electrical therapy: Sanofix (hand vibrator : Electricitätsgesellschaft Sanitas, 1913 : From the Edgar Cyriax collection), James Barker (99 Regent Steet, London : ca. 1904) and his Barker Massage Machine, Cox-Cavendish Electrical Company (1924) Ltd.'s Charles Cahier system of massage, x-ray and electro-medical apparatus (1933), Pifco Vibratory Massager (1960s?), Stanley Cox Ltd.'s vibrators (Sanex, improved Power Vibrator), Ajax Dry-Cell electric system (Crystal Palace exhibition, 1907), Pulvermacher's Hydro-Electric Chain (Charles Meinig, 103 Leadenhall Street, London : ca. 1851?), Electropoise for rheumatism, indigestion, nervous disorders, neuralgia, insomnia, paralysis, liver & kidney troubles, constipation, asthma, eczema, influenza (Electrolibration Company, 407 Oxford Street, London : 1895?), Tsubo massage chairs (Colebrand Healthcare Products), micro-element therapy (Maya Kraus), A.M. Richardson's Batterie Magnéto-Galvanique medallions, William Ruck's medical galvanic apparatus (Montpellier Baths, Cheltenham), William Moody Bell's trusses, bandages, enemas, galvanism and electricity, Gloucester Spa mineral waters, Pall Mall Electric Association's Electropathic Belt, Anti-Mal de Mer (sea-sickness pills), Dr. Scott's Electric Hair Brush (cures headache), Electropathic Belts, Electropatent socks (for gout, sciatica and rheumatism), Dr. Scott's Electric Corsets, London Galvanic Generator, Dr. Scott's Electric Flesh Brush (analgesic qualities), the Medical Battery Company Limited (1895), W. Hardy (professor of electricity, Harrogate), Darlow & Co.'s analgesic Magnetine appliances, Harness's system of electropathic treatment at the Electropathic and Zander Institute (52 Oxford Street, London), Pulvermacher's patent portable Hydro-Electric Chain (for all acute nervous pains), Magneto-Electric Battery Company's Electro-Magnetic Socks (for healthy circulation and warm feet), Dr. Carter Moffat's Electric Body Belt, Dr. Lowder's Magneto-Electric Battery : Magneto-Electric Battery Company (worn as a medallion around the neck for indigestion, neuralgia, tooth ache, headache, nervous debility, skin diseases, rheumatism, bronchitis, heart disease), Grimstone's Eye Snuff for cholera : G.H. Boutell (professor of galvanism : 1848), Fetouris International's Biotone phototherapy unit, Health Through Technology, Audio Ltd.'s Omega One skin resistance meter and E.E.G. measurement, Biofeedback and psychotechnics, Adimpex's AmperPlast (pain relief patches), British Institute of Auriculotherapy, Magno Heal (magnetic therapy and pain relief), Chattanooga Vibrator Instrument Company (1903) treating hemiplegia, chronic synovitis, deafness, vomiting, rheumatism, albuminuria, varicose veins, Stanley Cox's 'Eclipse' radiant heat hand lamp and Intertherm Diathermy apparatus (1929) and G. Duflot's (of Paris) Thermasix 'Ondes courtes' device for electric therapy and other diagnostic procedures (1938), Advanced Healing Therapies (Binley Woods, Coventry, 2011), the Savage Health Motor (ca.1930), the Veedee portable electrical massage device (1915), Trojan high-frequency (violet-ray) electrical outfits, 4 poster stamps (ca. 1910) from a sheet of at least 18 advertising the Sanax Vibrator, Bookmark for G. Duflot's electrotherapy and actinotherapy (17 Rue Maurice Meyer, Paris), 'Magnetic curative appliances' : Magnetoline (Darlow & Co., 443, Strand, London : postcard : February 1876).

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Bulletin. No. 31, Albuminuria / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

Health & beauty at little cost : Savage health motor : exerciser & reducer / Savage Arms Corporation.

Dr. C. Rigola, artistic coiffure, hair & skin specialist & high class hair manufacturer : advice on the hair & skin free of charge : 5, The Avenue, 7 Victoria Buildings, Bournemouth.

Doctor Tom Brent, young intern. Vol. 1, no. 1, Doctors aren't always doctors.

Mechanical vibratory stimulation : its theory and application in the treatment of disease / by Maurice F. Pilgrim.

Apparatus for vibratory and electric treatment of the body / Christian Heitman.

Bulletin. No. 25, Deafness / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

Bulletin. No. 29, Vomiting in pregnancy / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

Bulletin. No. 30, Muscular rheumatism / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

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Bulletin. No. 31, Albuminuria / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

Health & beauty at little cost : Savage health motor : exerciser & reducer / Savage Arms Corporation.

Dr. C. Rigola, artistic coiffure, hair & skin specialist & high class hair manufacturer : advice on the hair & skin free of charge : 5, The Avenue, 7 Victoria Buildings, Bournemouth.

Doctor Tom Brent, young intern. Vol. 1, no. 1, Doctors aren't always doctors.

Mechanical vibratory stimulation : its theory and application in the treatment of disease / by Maurice F. Pilgrim.

Apparatus for vibratory and electric treatment of the body / Christian Heitman.

Bulletin. No. 25, Deafness / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

Bulletin. No. 29, Vomiting in pregnancy / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

Bulletin. No. 30, Muscular rheumatism / Clinical Department of The Vibrator Instrument Company.

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