Electric Belt
notes: label: Description
content: Dr. Horne’s electrotherapeutic belts, widely advertised in the 1880s, were based on patents issued to Charles N. West of California.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles N. West, “Improvement in Electrotherapeutical Belts,” U.S. Patent 221,485 (Nov. 11, 1879).
label: Description
content: Charles N. West, “Galvanic Belt,” U.S. Patent 234,379 (Nov. 9, 1880).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. George R. Luoma
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-06483
label: catalog number
content: M-06483
label: accession number
content: 176647
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Electric Belt
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Object Name
content: electric belt
label: Other Terms
content: Electrotherapeutic Apparatus, Electric Belt; Belt, Electric; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 37 in; x 5.08 cm x 93.98 cm