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Artifact Name	Electrode Eye Cup
Type of Object	Cup, eye
Date of Manufacture	1878-1885
Time Period	Nineteenth century
Dimensions	3.5 cm. x 20 cm. x 4.3 cm.
Physical Details	Electro-therapeutic eye cup electrode with wooden handle. Eye cup is a thick, clear glass, eye-shaped cylinder with a steel spring inside. Cup has a steel neck into which is screwed a brown wooden handle. A small metal knob is at the end of the wooden handle, which is where an electrical source would be plugged in to the device. Used to treat the eye by sending an electrical current through the instrument. Claims to "soothe the nerves."
Medical Subject	Electric Stimulation Therapy
Accession Number	1988.3
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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