eBay: 100-Year-Old Electro-Shock Machine
I am trying my hardest not to purchase anything but the most needed items while I continue to purge my home of junk, but some person with a wood-paneled office should jump on this auction of a 100-year-old electro-shock therapy machine. Not only does it come with all of the attachments and the original attachments, the seller says it still works.
Fifty freakin' bucks. (For now.) A steal.
Quack Medical/Medicine Electro Shock Machine Device [eBay]
Bonus Link: Slightly more modern unit alongside a pill box from 1890 (!) [Swapatorium]
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Academic medical libraries tend to have collections of such devices; old docs or their heirs clean out their offices and attics and have gear like this in boxes, some of it in surprisingly good shape, some of it complete with suggestively-shaped attachments. Nobody at the library I worked at seemed terribly eager to test the stuff out, I noticed.