Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1892 — Electric Belts are a Fraud. [ARTICLE]

Electric Belts are a Fraud.

People who have invested their money in electric belts—alleged remedies for all ills flesh is heir to, have found out that they were bilked, bat the Scientific American comes to th® reseno of invalids tempted to boy these belts, »with proof that they possess no curative power. It sayß: •‘At the Edison laboratory, Dr. Fred Peierson and A. E. Kennelly have sought to prove that no ther“Speutic effects are resulted from the application of magnetism to the human system. For the purpuse ui experiment" fclm 'mvmrtiTVia was taken from a dynamo, and in the-eyitader f^fbyu tbe- inaep

verj<iiio field magnets a dog was confined and kept for'a-- period of five hours. The intensity of these magnets was from 1,000 to 2,000 J c. g. s. hues- to the square centi-mi-ut. At liio end oi the time mentn ned th»- dog was set at liberty, and beyond bis apparent joy at thuH being set loose the operation did not seem to affect him in ■ the least . “A boy was also confined for a short-lime in 'he same position &nu vh? aii-o uuuifiut'Ucecl. Several other experiments of like nature were made. Dr. Peterson and Mr Kennelly concluded from their experiments that the hnman organism is in nowise affected by the most powerful magneto known to an dern science.”