Induction Pad
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Object Details
- Description
- A cloth label reads in part: “INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE USE OF THE / LOCALIZING INDUCTION PAD / . . . / ELECTRONET SALES COMPANY / BOX xxx / Salt Lake City, Utah.” The Magnecoil Co. was incorporated in Utah in 1917 as the Electronet Sales Co. The Utah Payroll Builder took notice of The Electronet Manufacturing Co. in June 1918, explaining that “It is claimed that when these magnetic garments are used, the patient is virtually enveloped in a magnetic field which radiates waves of vital force, which stimulate the cells of the body. By attracting Nature’s medium—four percent of iron in the blood—this magnetic force is insinuated into the body by autoconduction.” In 1938, William F. Craddick, proprietor of Electronet and several other products, received a cease and desist order from the Federal Trade Commission, which found his advertising to be false and misleading.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Eva B. Mason
- ca 1920s
- ID Number
- 1984.0913.01
- catalog number
- 1984.0913.01
- accession number
- 1984.0913
- patent number
- 1391762
- Object Name
- localizing induction pad, set
- therapy, polio
- Measurements
- overall, booties: 11 1/2 in x 14 in x 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 35.56 cm x 1.27 cm
- overall, pad: 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 34.29 cm
- overall, blanket: 59 in x 65 in; 149.86 cm x 165.1 cm
- place made
- United States: Utah, Salt Lake City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- The Antibody Initiative
- Antibody Initiative: Polio
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1414315
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-49d3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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