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- Lot 367
[MEDICINE] "The Pulsoconn of Dr. Macaura". With 3 explanatory booklets in French. S.l., British Apparatus Manufacturing Company, [c. 1920-1930]. Chrome-plated metal and bakelite handles, H 27 cm W 10 cm, inscribed "PULSOCON PATENT 13932", with 2 screw-on accessories (rubber tip cracked on one, incomplete on the other). In original printed cardboard box (worn). Minimal signs of use, a few stains and creases to the booklets, otherwise in very good overall condition and working order. Vibratory massage device invented by "Doctor" Gerald George Macaura (1871-1941) and which was very successful in the late 19th and early 20th century. The rotation of the crank transmits to the rubber suction cup an amazingly fast pulsating movement. According to the notice of the Lille Hospital Museum, "the original English name of Pulscon was changed in French to Pulsoconn, probably to be pronounced -conne [in English]".
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