Featured Medical Quackery Piece or Antique Tool?

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  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    I found this at my friend's thrift store last week, it has a cool steam punk look + it looks like it may actually perform some kind of service/job, but a image search didnt turn up another.
    A friend told me it was a medical quack device & since I also found along with it a 1920's - 1930's ear scope, I'm wondering if this was some kind of medical device - legit or quackery?
    Can anyone help with what this?

    PS - last 2 photos are of the ear scope and(!) I someone who loved corvettes must have divorced his wife & in response she donated his stuff! I got corvette models, corvette books, a 50th anniversary corvette thermometer & the best - a Bally Corvette pinball game back glass art!
    Happy New Year everyone!

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    The other medical piece

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    The Corvette pinball game back glass art!

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    journeymagazine, Jan 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

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    komokwa, Jan 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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  3. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    If it walks like a duck............
     
    komokwa, Jan 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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  4. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Cautery is a procedure that uses heat from an electric current to burn tissue and seal off blood vessels to reduce bleeding.

    A cauterization device, missing its battery..
    Portable, so might have been used in the field.



    The ear scope is much the same as they are today.
     
    daveydempsey, Jan 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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  5. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    You found one!!
    Great job, komokwa- thank you!
     
    journeymagazine, Jan 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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  6. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    So it's a real medical device?!
    Same age as ear scope ('20s - '30s)?
     
    journeymagazine, Jan 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    journeymagazine, Jan 2, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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  8. kentworld

    kentworld Well-Known Member

    Nicely made wooden box...
     
    kentworld, Jan 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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  9. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    Really cool find Journey.Also nice image grab @Komokwa.The cool brass & glass piece on the extreme left is called a 'Kelvin Astatic Mirror Galvanometer'.
    Komo's group of 3 was sold on 'Invaluable' for $150.'Invaluable' seems to be a collection of various auction houses and some of the sold prices on it seem pretty cheap.
    Anybody here ever use it,and/or...what's the catch ?
    https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/148729107_group-of-3-old-quack-medical-devices
     
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    bosko69, Jan 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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  10. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

    In the slip-shod world of web commerce they can call it anything they want.Phony attribution's a regular thing these days.
    It may have been referred to as both a 'Cautery' & 'Voltage Regulator' back in the day.
     
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    bosko69, Jan 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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  11. pearlsnblume

    pearlsnblume Well-Known Member

    There used to be and may still be in biz, a person who collected a lot of medical devices and made it into a museum. I don't remember where it was. Maybe google it??
     
    pearlsnblume, Jan 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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  12. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    Legit medical equipment, not quackery, used as Davey says. Cool!
     
    bluumz, Jan 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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