J.L. Pulvermacher's patent portable hydro-electric voltaic chain batteries : sold by J. Steinert, (sole agent for the United States,) ... New-York.

  • Pulvermacher, J. L.
Date:
1853
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Credit: J.L. Pulvermacher's patent portable hydro-electric voltaic chain batteries : sold by J. Steinert, (sole agent for the United States,) ... New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I, ilictindersigncd, Doctor of Medicine of the faculty at Paris, professor in, the cUnique fventaire) medicine, occulist, etc., do horcbj' ccrfcify that the Hydro Electric Chain of Mr. Piilvermacher produces the happiest result in the treatment of nervous diseases of the eyes, such as amanurosis, convulsive agi- tation of the eye-balls, etc. It affords mo a particular pleasure to covtify to the excellence of this appa- ratus, which is sure to render still the greatest services in the treatment of nervous diseases, of whatever description they may be. ^Signed,) A. FRxlNCON de PREOUX. Paris, 23d of Juno, 1852. 48 Rue de la Chaussee d'Antiu, d Paris. GERMANY: AUSTRIA, PRUSSIA, SAXONY, Etc., Etc. I, the undersigned, do hereby certify that the Hydro Electric Chains of Mr. Pulvermacher may foe applied with the greatest advantage in all cases wherever electricity may be indicated. OPPOLZER, M. D. Physician to the Court, Head Physician of the principal Hospital at Vienna, (Allgemeines Krankenhans), etc., etc. The trials which were made by the undersigned during several months with the Hydro Electric Chains of Mr. Pulvermacher, in those eases of chronic Rheumatism, as well as in those paralytic forms of disease originating in them, have sufficiently shown that this effect on the human organization is not only very invigorating, but that their curative power was also a corresponding one. JAEGER, M. D., Professor and directing physician in the Clinique for diseases of the Eyes, in Vienna, etc., etc. Similar testimonials have been signed by : Prof. PiEscHEL, Prof. Mereach, Councillor of Medicine, Muller, Prof. Gunther, Dr. H. E, RiCHTEE, Dr. Heideweich, Dr. Schmalz, etc., etc. EXTRACTS. Dr. Heideureich in his reports on the progress in Therapeutical physics. J. L. Pulvermacher, at Vienna (Mariahilf No. 37), sells Hydro Electric Chains which really pro- duce a great deal of electricity. * * * * I have succeeded with these Chains in deflecting the needle of the Galvanometer, in decomposing wat-er, in the solution of (Jodkalium), in the reduction of the nitrate of protoxyde of Mercury, and oxyde of silver, in obtaining contraction of the prepared frogsleg, and on my own forehead I observed the prickling sensation as a result of these Chains. Being in this manner physical and physiological real Electro-motors, these Chains may easily be brought into use in therapeutic application. Indeed, these Chains excited at the place where the current is interrupted by the glass cylinder and passes through the body, red spots like small blisters, and showed decided effect in cases of Rheumatism, where I applied it. Etc., etc., etc. Extract fro'in the Feuilleton der deufsclieu f German) Clinique, of the I2th March, 1852. [Tested together with Drs. Jahn, Dietzel, Schmitt, professors of Physics and Mechanics, at the Uni- versity and Polytechnic Institution at Zittau (Saxony), by Dr. Kuchenmeister, at Zittau.] With regard to the effects of Pulvermacher's Hydro Electric Chains, we may say of them : 1. That even the smallest Chains of fl, consisting of six spiral pairs, decompose water in a small ap-