Artifact No.06 - Electrotherapy Device
This is a turn-of-the-century electrotherapy device.
There's no writing on the box anywhere, so I couldn't figure out who the manufacturer was, although someone was probably making it in their home workshop way back when.
Back in olden times before people got their medical quackery from TikTok, people used devices like these in a variety of ways to treat things such as pain, depression, muscle stiffness, arthritis, vitality, wound healing, and also to improve the efficacy of medication by ionizing it for faster treatment.
The device that we have is in a bit of a rough shape. The wooden box it comes in is very weathered, but the hinges and clasps are all intact and working. The two copper rods, which we assume you were supposed to hold them while you were doing the electric therapy, have some fraying on the wires and some of the internal metal components are oxidized or resting.
Does it still work, you might ask? Well, we're too afraid to try out, especially with the fraying wires. As fun as it would be to see if will electrocute us we're pretty sure it will be catastrophically dangerous. (If you buy it we strongly urge you not to test it out on yourself.)
(This is the same device discussed on Episode 6 of the Probably Cursed Podcast)
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