Re: Violet ray machines - Re: Pig grounding

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

Tesla list wrote:
 
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

> You can buy a half dozen of these any week on eBay. It's just an evacuated
> glass tube on the end of an adjustable induction coil. 

Looks more as a small Oudin coil (A Tesla coil with the two coils 
connected as an autotransformer). I have experimented with one some time
ago, but didn't figure out how to open it to see what was inside. Do
someone have an schematic of a typical one? 

> It was one of the most
> popular bits of quack medical machinery from the first half of the 20th
> century. It was supplanted by the Lakhovsky Multiwave Oscillator, another
piece
> of total quack junk still being pushed by the New Age Whackos at "Borderland
> Sciences Research Foundation" of Vista CA. You might contact them if you are
> really into old-time hokum and hoodoo. Just don't confuse any of it with
> science.

I have seen a pair of these too. They are in my list of things to
restore,
just to see what would they do (look impressive too):
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/oldtesla.html.
I am not sure about how to connect them to a big electrostatic machine,
that
was where I found them mounted.

Many of these weird electrical devices had really some functionality in
the treatment of some diseases, by killing microorganisms by heat or UV
light. This was before antibiotic drugs were developed.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz