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Thing of the month February 2010::

The High-frequency apparatus "Energos"

A comb, an ear cleaner, a tooth mirror made of glass? How strange those forms appear in this elegant suitcase fitted with purple velvet! In addition a box with a turning knob and a wire, which inspires the viewer’s fantasy.

Instruments of this kind for domestic use were created in the 1920s when electricity was increasingly used in a household. Shortly after the French physicist and physiologist Jacques-Arsène d’Arsonval had introduced high frequency streams for medical care in 1892, electric therapy became a fashionable device for all-over cures.
The generator, which was connected to the usual net produced high frequency streams ranging from 10 to 20 Kilohertz. The various individually shaped electrodes that were put onto the handle were used to treat everything from rheumatism, diabetes, toothache and bubble toes.

Unfortunately these high frequency instruments caused disturbances in the broadcasting system around several hundred meters. Their production and use was prohibited after World War II. In the meantime medicine and cosmetics industry have rediscovered high frequency therapy using this procedure in a modified form.




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