Item #118 - Womb Battery, Health Battery Company, Oakland California; c. 1895; Bimetallic silver-zinc uterine pessary with applicator wire; About 1.2" x 1.5" in size, 6" applicator; Custom plexiglass display holder.



Comes with a 4-page and 2-page instruction leaflet with a reprint from 'Clinical Electrotheraputics', 1873. Reproduced below.



Several devices of this kind were patented at the end of the 1800's. No patents are mentioned in the device's literature. The device seems to be a combination of Keller's and Petit's design: Martha Keller's Patent Dr. Julius Petit's Patent



Some uterine electrification ideas went to truly bizarre extremes: Mohn's Electric Uterine Support



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