File:Electrotherapy auto-conduction cage.jpg

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English: Treatment of a patient with high frequency electric currents using an "auto-conduction cage" in 1903, used in the Victorian-era quack medical field of electrotherapy. A Tesla coil in the cabinet (left rear) produces high voltage high frequency alternating current which is applied to the metal cage with the patient inside.
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Source Retrieved September 7, 2015 from Kathleen Schlesinger, "Disease and Electricity" in The World's Work William Heinemann, London, Vol. 2, No. 9, August 1903 p. 272 on Google Books
Author Kathleen Schlesinger

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Auto conduction cage used in Victorian era electrotherapy

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