Antique Quack Medical Device, Boyd\'s Galvanic Battery
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Antique Quack Medical Device, Boyd\'s Galvanic Battery:
$75.00
You are offerding on a Boyd\'s Battery which is now referred to as a quack medical device.
The Boyd\'s Battery (or Boyd\'s Miniature Galvanic Battery)is an electro-therapeutic medical medallion, promising to generate a healing electric current in the wearer, produced by the reaction of the varying metals constituting the battery with the wearer\'s skin (as a galvanic response).
The battery itself is approximately 3 centimetres in diameter, and is composed of 12 individual disks of copper, brass, German silver, and nickel, surrounding a central copper rosette, itself with a brass disk plugged into the centre, all of which is encircled by a brass ring.
Among other afflictions, a Boyd\'s Battery was recommended to those subject to any of the following symptoms: \"Restless Nights, Nightmare, Palpitation of the Heart, Loss of Confidence, Dizziness, Fainting Spells, Loss of Memory, Fullness of blood, Fits of Melancholy, Debilitated, Lack of Power of Will and Action, Disordered Condition of the Liver, blood, Kidneys, or Urinary Organs\". It was proposed that \"these troubles arise mostly from relaxation or debility, for the relief of which electricity is eminently adapted
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Antique Quack Medical Device, Boyd\'s Galvanic Battery:
$75.00