From: brian carroll <electromagnetize@gmail.com>
   To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org
   Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 10:01 PM
   Subject: dual-use (urls)
   >Shocking Medical Devices From Another Century (via digg)
   [1]>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/bakken-museum/?viewall=tr
   ue
   >[&] The Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life
   [2]>http://www.thebakken.org/
       In 1978, I visited the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC for
   the first (and so far, only) time.  They had a display of "quack
   medical devices", that included a high-voltage AC device attached to
   glowing neon-bulb-type tubes.  The idea was that these tubes would be
   pressed against a person's flesh, thus capacitively coupled through the
   glass, including a glowing light within the tube,  and inducing a mild
   electrical current.  At the time, I accepted the idea that this was,
   indeed, an example of a "quack medical device".
      In 1996, I began work at a Vancouver Washington
   contract-electronic-design/manufacturer firm.  One of the major
   products that this company made were "TENS" devices.  (Transcutaneous
   Electrical Nerve Stimulators   [3]http://www.tensunits.com/   ).   They
   were/are intended to reduce chronic pain.  They worked in pretty much
   the same way that those "quack" early 1900's devices worked:  Cause a
   AC small current to flow within flesh.  What was thought to be 'quack'
   in 1978, turned out to not be 'quack' at all!
          Jim Bell

References

   1. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/bakken-museum/?viewall=true
   2. http://www.thebakken.org/
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