Dr. Lowder's magneto-electric battery : the great health restorer ; stop taking medicine, and try nature's own remedy: electricity ! / The Magneto-Electric Battery Company.

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[between 1880 and 1889?]
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Dr. Lowder's magneto-electric battery : the great health restorer ; stop taking medicine, and try nature's own remedy: electricity ! / The Magneto-Electric Battery Company. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Advertising leaflet for a medical battery in the form of a locket, worn round the neck, next to the skin "Producing a mild electric current ... in harmony with the magnetic laws of the body" sustaining "the various functions, thus promoting the health and vigours of the entire frame ... set in action by the uric and other acids naturally and continually emitted from the skin." It was recommended for "rheumatism, debility, indigestion, constipation, hysteria, spinal disease, paralysis, pimples, swollen joints, sciatica, neuralgia, quinsey, catarrh, diphtheria, lumbago, asthma, pleurisy, ulcers and weak stomach.

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London : Magneto-Electric Battery Company, [between 1880 and 1889?]

Physical description

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

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"The Magneto-Electric Battery Company, 139, 141, & 143, Oxford Street, London, W."
"The blood is the life, but electicity is the life of the blood !"

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