File:Dr Pierce's Body Battery (1889) (ADVERT 254).jpeg

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  • Geographic coverage: United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
  • Subjects (LCTGM): Trusses; Medical equipment & supplies; Magnetic healing; Health care; Quacks
  • Categories: Quackery; Health and hygiene; Machinery, equipment and appliances
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English: Early Advertising of the West Collection
Author
English: Magnetic Elastic Truss Company
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institution QS:P195,Q219563
Department
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University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
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254
Inscriptions
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Text:
Life renewer. As applied by Dr. Pierce's new Galvanic Chain Belt, will positively cure disease without the aid of medicine...Is a portable body battery and contains special appliances for both sexes for curing the following complaints: nervous debility, kidney complaint, general debility, constipation, dyspepia, diseases of the liver...$6 price and upward. Patented Oct. 11, 1887.
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R.L. Polk & Company
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ADV0111
Company/Advertising Agency
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Magnetic Elastic Truss Company
Publisher
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R.L. Polk & Company
Publisher Location
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Tacoma, Washington
Publication Source
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Tacoma city directory, p. 461

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