Description:

Model Number unknown. Tens of thousands of these devices were sold for home use between about 1915 and 1950 under brand names such as Masters, Elco and Renulife. Literature accompanying the devices claimed to cure just about everything including heart disease, paralysis, wry neck and writers cramp!The small Violet Ray Machines are a home-remedy version of the D'Arsonval/Oudin equipment. A hand-held coil feeds radio energy into a low-pressure gas electrode. The energy is capacitively coupled into the human body, providing warmth via diathermy. At the same time, the gas discharge creates ozone and ultraviolet light, which were said to be effective in many skin diseases. More powerful versions of this apparatus were found in many physicians' offices. Diathermy is still used today, thought the energy is now most commonly applied through inductive rather than capacitive coupling.

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May 25, 2015 1:00 PM EDT
Victor, NY, US

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