This page is supplementary material the lecture on the 26th. It is laid out with my own personal collection of objects in the order that such things are relevant to the presentation, to provide visual reference. Enjoy!
CHAPTER 1 – Blades and Drills
Trephine, 1870s, used for boring holes in the skull
Fleam, 19th Century. One would put the correct size of blade over a vein abd then tap the backside with a wooden stick.
Scarificator, late 1700’s – The 13 spring-loaded blades would slice quickly through the skin at the push of the release button. Commonly followed by cupping to increase the blood flow.
Leech Bowl, 1890’s
Flint Cups, modern
French Cups with Vacuum pump, Turn of the Century
Mechanical Leech, used for bloodletting and also to pull of blister fluid from the Lebenswecker
CHAPTER 2 – Drugs and Panaceas
Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil
Chinese Opium Censor (19th Century)
Paregoric containing Opium
Laudanum
Burnett’s Cocoaine (Cocaine)
Mercury Salt (Full)
Mercury crock
Rawleigh’s Antiseptic Salve (made with Mercury)
Lapactic Pills (Containing Strychnine – FULL)
Chloroform (Half full)
Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhea Remedy (contains Ether and Chloroform)
Blew’s Red Gum Cough Syrup (Made with Morphine and Chloroform in my hometown of Paducah)
DeVilbiss No 15 Atomizer – Used with inhalant anesthetics such as ether and chloroform, it was later adopted by the perfume industry
CHAPTER 3 – Technology and Science
Revigator – I put in water and ran tests on the water after leaving it overnight. It tested at 30ppb of arsenic (3x safe levels), it tested positive for lead, and the radiation levels were at 14.60 μSv/h. That is equivalent to the fallout of the Fukishima Power Plant meltdown, and exceeds current levels in the Chernobyl cooling towers.
Scott’s Electric Flesh Brush, with Scott’s Compass to prove its “electric” properties
Mioxrl’s Electric Body Battery (Electric Belt with Scrotum loop)
Three different Faradic Batteries in my collection, all turn of the Century
McIntosh Milliampere Meter – Designed to calibrate faradic batteries and electrotherapy devices
Electreat
Myofasciatron
The Stimulator
Karl Von Schilling’s Surgical Ray
Karl von Schilling’s Surgical Ray (Lit from behind)
Karl Von Schilling’s Vita Sun-Ray Projector
Karl Von Schilling’s Vita Sun-Rays (Lit from behind)
Fischer Corporation Cold Quartz Light
Fischer Corporation Cold Quartz (Lit)
National Stamping & Electric Works Violet Ray – 1918
Violet Ray in use
Folding Goggles to be used with Violet Rays
Oscilloclast
Diathermy device
Micro-Dynameter
Radio Disease Killer
Radio Disease Killer powered on
Radio Disease Killer – Inside view
CHAPTER 4 – The Wild and Bizarre
Human Tapeworm slide, specimen prepared in Paris 1867
Aurasage – Blasts loud noise into the ear to “free the bones of the ear”, restoring lost hearing
Vapo-Cresolene
Boyd’s Battery
Lebenswecker
Lebenswecker detail
Electropoise Oxypathy Device
Demiger – A combiination oil/acupuncture/light ray/magnet device that is used on a pressure point map
Dr Quackenstein’s Museum of Oddities
This page is supplementary material the lecture on the 26th. It is laid out with my own personal collection of objects in the order that such things are relevant to the presentation, to provide visual reference. Enjoy!
CHAPTER 1 – Blades and Drills
Trephine, 1870s, used for boring holes in the skull
Fleam, 19th Century. One would put the correct size of blade over a vein abd then tap the backside with a wooden stick.
Scarificator, late 1700’s – The 13 spring-loaded blades would slice quickly through the skin at the push of the release button. Commonly followed by cupping to increase the blood flow.
Leech Bowl, 1890’s
Flint Cups, modern
French Cups with Vacuum pump, Turn of the Century
Mechanical Leech, used for bloodletting and also to pull of blister fluid from the Lebenswecker
CHAPTER 2 – Drugs and Panaceas
Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil
Chinese Opium Censor (19th Century)
Paregoric containing Opium
Laudanum
Burnett’s Cocoaine (Cocaine)
Mercury Salt (Full)
Mercury crock
Rawleigh’s Antiseptic Salve (made with Mercury)
Lapactic Pills (Containing Strychnine – FULL)
Chloroform (Half full)
Chamberlain’s Colic and Diarrhea Remedy (contains Ether and Chloroform)
Blew’s Red Gum Cough Syrup (Made with Morphine and Chloroform in my hometown of Paducah)
DeVilbiss No 15 Atomizer – Used with inhalant anesthetics such as ether and chloroform, it was later adopted by the perfume industry
CHAPTER 3 – Technology and Science
Revigator – I put in water and ran tests on the water after leaving it overnight. It tested at 30ppb of arsenic (3x safe levels), it tested positive for lead, and the radiation levels were at 14.60 μSv/h. That is equivalent to the fallout of the Fukishima Power Plant meltdown, and exceeds current levels in the Chernobyl cooling towers.
Scott’s Electric Flesh Brush, with Scott’s Compass to prove its “electric” properties
Mioxrl’s Electric Body Battery (Electric Belt with Scrotum loop)
Three different Faradic Batteries in my collection, all turn of the Century
McIntosh Milliampere Meter – Designed to calibrate faradic batteries and electrotherapy devices
Electreat
Myofasciatron
The Stimulator
Karl Von Schilling’s Surgical Ray
Karl von Schilling’s Surgical Ray (Lit from behind)
Karl Von Schilling’s Vita Sun-Ray Projector
Karl Von Schilling’s Vita Sun-Rays (Lit from behind)
Fischer Corporation Cold Quartz Light
Fischer Corporation Cold Quartz (Lit)
National Stamping & Electric Works Violet Ray – 1918
Violet Ray in use
Folding Goggles to be used with Violet Rays
Oscilloclast
Diathermy device
Micro-Dynameter
Radio Disease Killer
Radio Disease Killer powered on
Radio Disease Killer – Inside view
CHAPTER 4 – The Wild and Bizarre
Human Tapeworm slide, specimen prepared in Paris 1867
Aurasage – Blasts loud noise into the ear to “free the bones of the ear”, restoring lost hearing
Vapo-Cresolene
Boyd’s Battery
Lebenswecker
Lebenswecker detail
Electropoise Oxypathy Device
Demiger – A combiination oil/acupuncture/light ray/magnet device that is used on a pressure point map
Demiger (Needles detail)
Prostate Warmer
Vibrator (turn of the Century)
Vibrator (Early 20th Century)