A Cabinet of Curiosities


Dr. Walter Freeman, world's foremost lobotomist.

 

keeping the circuit open when the organ is quiescent. Upon the ring is a 				flat plate of ivory (a), furnished with a bolt(b), which, upon erection, is 				pushed backwards so as to complete the circuit. With the ring and bolt 				are connected two insulated wires (B,B) which convey the current to 				two binding screws (C1,C2)…On the circuit being completed by the 				pushing back of the bolt (b), the hammer strikes the bell (G)
The Electric Alarum, an anti-Spermatorrhea (wet dreams) device from Spermatorrhea-Its Pathology, Results, and Complications, by John Lawes Milton (1881)
"...keeping the circuit open when the organ is quiescent. Upon the ring is a flat plate of ivory (a), furnished with a bolt(b), which, upon erection, is pushed backwards so as to complete the circuit. With the ring and bolt are connected two insulated wires (B,B) which convey the current to two binding screws (C1,C2)…On the circuit being completed by the pushing back of the bolt (b), the hammer strikes the bell (G)..."

 

Ancient trepanation apparatus, and the result...
Ancient trepanation apparatus, and the result...

 

Ancient trepanation apparatus, and the result...

 

Devices for the mentally ill designed by Dr. Benjamin Rush, America's leading doctor of the 18th Century.

 

Jugum anti-masturbatory device circa 1900 - London Science Museum
Jugum anti-masturbatory device circa 1900 – London Science Museum