3-077-765 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement for Mr. C. B. Harness' Electropathic Belt, 1890. 'A BOON TO SUFFERERS...An invaluable health appliance for the treatment and cure of disease. It is delightfully comfortable to wear, prevents chills, invigorates the debilitated constitution, assists digestion, promotes the circulation, and speedily overcomes every form of NERVOUS, MUSCULAR, or ORGANIC WEAKNESS, THEY CURE RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS, LIVER & KIDNEY DISORDERS, INTERNAL WEAKNESS, HYSTERIA, NERVOUS WEAKNESS, SLEEPLESSNESS, NEURALGIA, DEBILITY, &C. "I have wonderfully improved since wearing your Electropathic Belt and Spine Band. I have lost all feelings of exhaustion."...COMPLETELY CURED - Mr. Alfred James writes: "I am glad to inform you that the Electropathic Belt I obtained from you a little while back has completely cured me of rheumatic gout."...Harness' Electropathic Belts...are constructed on strictly scientific principles, are guaranteed to generate mild continuous currents which are imperceptible to the senses, and convey no shock to the system. They are positively the only bona-fide curative galvanic belts which the public may purchase with safety...THE MEDICAL BATTERY COMPANY, LIMITED. THE LARGEST MEDICO-ELECTRIC INSTITUTE IN THE WORLD'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.