Devices and Therapies

Before technology provided healers with sophisticated bells and whistles, most were content to use the elements they had at hand, including water, light, and temperature. A common goal was to either increase or decrease circulation and thus oxygen supply to various diseased parts of the body. Additionally, few physicians hesitated to explore mysterious new and untested healing discoveries like electricity and radioactivity. 

Catalog cover for the Vi-Rex Electric Company (ca. 1930)