In the late 1800s, doctors prescribed sitting in a chair that shook you sixty times a second as a genuine medical treatment for everything from constipation to depression. The vibrating chair grew out of a wave of “mechanotherapy” clinics that promised mechanized vibration could cure nerves, aid digestion, and even improve your complexion — and for a while, respectable physicians agreed. This is the real story of the vibrating chair, the inventor who patented it, and the slow slide from serious medicine to novelty-shop gimmick.
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- Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything (book)
- Antique-style medical instrument print set
- Modern percussion massage gun (the tamer descendant of this idea)
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