The Birtman was an office model available to physicians in 1904 . The motor is inside the large housing at the top ; vibratodes were impound to the hit man - mold applier at the end of the cable . The figure of speech is from Snow , Mary Lydia Hastings Arnold . Mechanical quiver and its curative diligence . New York : Scientific writer ’ Pub . Co. , 1904 .
The Electrospatteur , another physician ’s model , deport a combining of shakiness with a mild electrical jolt . It was manufactured by the Armstrong Electric Company of Indianapolis about 1901 .
The Victor was manufacture by Keystone Electric of Philadelphia in 1903 . The odd side was a vibrator , the fastness of which was controlled by the lever in the middle of the console , the one over the ( unlabeled ) mother - of - pearl speed indicators . The ripe side was a pneumatic attachment , which , like a vacancy cleaner , could either inhale or exhale . It could , as it were , either float or suck , depending on the user ’s necessity .
The Weiss vibrator was , as far as I know , the first electromechanical vibrator to be commercially available , available by 1883 from the still - active British medical instrument manufacturer Weiss . It was free-base on the work of a British physician , from whose playscript this illustration is drawn : Granville , J. Mortimer . cheek - vibration and excitation as agents in the treatment of functional disorder and organic disease . London :
Churchill , 1883 .
Yalor is , like Taylor ’s Manipulator , a steam - powered equipment of 1885 , although the steam - locomotive is out of skeleton ( to the right ) in the picture . It was used for what was then known as “ Swedish Massage , ” as express .
The Potsdam jolt chair dates from about 1890 ; the engineering may have originate at the Salpetriere in Paris . The affected role , sit in the chair , draw out back on the two handles and received a jolt that was intend to replicate the supposed therapeutic result of train travel .
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