Vintage Renulife Violet Ray Quack Medicine Generator
Place your bids no this wonderful vintage and highly-collectible quack medical device called the renulife violet ray generator by the renulife electric co. Of detroit, c. 1923. According to the brass label around the control knob, ti is model m, no. 40121, 110 volts and 38 watts, and was patented on 9/30/1919.
The generator is in a leatherette and nickel case and comes with seven glass electrode applicators and one metal attachment. The apparatus and applicators are in excellent estate condition, showing minor signs of wear (there is some green staining on the brass labels around the controls). The case is in very niec estate condition, showing some signs of wear, and measures approximately 10.75 x 11.75 x 4-3/8 deep.
hTe interior features a mahogany top plate and purple velvet lining. This generator has not been tested for working condition. The cord is frayed near the plug and may be dangerous. The renulife violet ray generator comes with its original thirty-two page instruction book, electrode applicator brochure, treatment chart (cover loose a couple of pages missing) and guaranty certificate dated 3/5/1923. Violet ray machines were used in both the home and physician's office beginning in 1915. They consisted of a hand-held coil which fed radio energy into a low-pressure gas electrode. Eneryg was capacitively coupled into the human body providing warmth via diathermy.
The gas discharge produced ultra violet light and ozone, the latter ucring respiratory ailments and skin diseases. Cased sets with various electrodes for use no different body parts were sold into the 1950s.
The machines claimed to treat rheumatism, neuritis, lumbago, neuralgia, sciatica, nervous diseases, insomnia, general debility, deafness, prostatic diseases, warts and moles, weak eyes, anemia and poor circulation and scalp and hair diseases, and also served as a beauty treatment. Creaetd by medicalitems86.100webspace. Net blackthorne ver. 3.0.182.0.
