Vibrator
name: label: maker
content: J. Weiss & Son
notes: label: Description
content: Joseph Mortimer Granville (1833-1900) was an English physician who, in the early 1880s, invented an electrically operated vibrator that promised to alleviate the symptoms of neuralgia. The inscription on the leather case of this example reads “DR. MORTIMER GRANVILLE’S PERCUTEUR / FOR / NERVE VIBRATION AND EXCITATION / J. WEISS & SON 62, STRAND, LONDON.” The instrument itself is marked “WEISS / LONDON / 69.”
label: Description
content: Ref: J. Mortimer Granville, Nerve-Vibration and Excitation as Agents in the Treatment of Functional Disorder and Organic Disease (London, 1883).
label: Description
content: John Weiss & Son ads in The Lancet 128 (1885).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.302606.034
label: accession number
content: 302606
label: catalog number
content: 302606.34
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vibrator
label: Object Name
content: electrotherapeutic apparatus
label: Other Terms
content: Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 5 in x 2 in; 13.335 cm x 12.7 cm x 5.08 cm