High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910):

By champion of electro-therapeutics Samuel Howard Monell, a physician who the American X-Ray Journal cite, rather wonderfully, as having “done more for static electricity than any other living man”. […]

Monell claims that his high frequency currents of electricity could treat a variety of ailments, including acne, lesions, insomnia, abnormal blood pressure, depression, and hysteria. Although not explicitly delved into in this volume, the treatment of this latter condition in women was frequently achieved at this time through the use of an early form of the vibrator (to save the physician from the manual effort), through bringing the patient to “hysterical paroxysm”.

We see here that the good name of Tesla has always been usurped by hucksters and quacks:

“It comprises a charging circuit interrupter, condenser, and primary and secondary coils, and is the only Tesla transformer ever brought within so small a compass.”

But never mind that, show me some ankle, baby! Oh yeah that’s the stuff.

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