Sinustat
name: label: maker
content: McIntosh Electrical Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The Sinusoidal Galvanic Machine (Model 1518) produced electrical stimulation, primarily for medical and physiological purposes. One tag on this example reads “SINUSTAT / Trade Mark Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. / MANUFACTURED BY / MC INTOSH ELECTRICAL CORP. / CHICAGO, ILL. U.S.A. / Serving the Profession Since 1879.” The other reads “MADE IN U.S.A. / BY MC INTOSH ELECTRICAL CORPORATION / CHICAGO, ILL.” The McIntosh Electrical Corporation, an offshoot of the McIntosh Battery & Optical Co., was organized in 1921.
label: Description
content: In an advertisement published in early 1918, the McIntosh Battery & Optical Co. noted that the No. 4 Polysine Generator had been “adopted as the standard apparatus in a large number of military hospitals” and had been found valuable for the relief of “any chronic nervous or muscular condition due to lack of tonicity.”
label: Description
content: Ref: McIntosh Battery & Optical Co. “WAR THERAPY” ad in American Journal of the Medical Sciences 155 (Jan. 1918): 2.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0290.06
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0290.06
label: accession number
content: 1996.0290
objectType: label: Object Name
content: electrotherapy device
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35.4 cm x 49.9 cm x 31.3 cm; 13 15/16 in x 19 21/32 in x 12 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/4 in x 20 in x 12 1/4 in; 36.195 cm x 50.8 cm x 31.115 cm