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| Advertisement | Dr. Pierce's Body Battery (1889) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Magnetic Elastic Truss Company |
| Publication Source | Tacoma city directory, p. 461 |
| Publisher | R.L. Polk & Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma |
| Publication Date | 1889
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| Advertisement 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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| Category | Quackery
Health and hygiene
Machinery, equipment and appliances |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Trusses; Medical equipment & supplies; Magnetic healing; Health care; Quacks |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Tacoma
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0111 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.745 D62 1889 |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from text at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008 |
