Micro-Dynameter
notes: label: Description
content: Francis Cutler Ellis, an engineer in Chicago, devised the Ellis Micro-Dynameter in the early 1930s. This device, it was said, would “make the human body function as a simple electrical cell and measure the current it generates.” And it could diagnose virtually every human ailment. It was marketed by Ellis Research Laboratories, in Chicago, and endorsed by prominent chiropractors. It was widely accepted by chiropractors for diagnosing “subluxations” and became their main bioelectrical instrument. This example, a Model SA-2, was seized by the FDA.
label: Description
content: Ref: Francis Cutler Ellis, “Improvement in or Relating to Methods of and Apparatus for Determining the Electrolytic Condition of an Animal Body,” British Patent GB429595A (1933).
label: Description
content: Francis Cutler Ellis, <i>Micro-Dynamics: New Science in Diagnosis and Treatment</i> (1933).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Food and Drug Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.274347.034
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content: M-12042
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content: 274347.034
label: accession number
content: 274347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Microdynameter, Ellis
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 11 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in; 35.56 cm x 29.21 cm x 36.83 cm