In honor of the, ahem, "release" of our newest issue, I would like to present you with my very favorite defunct contraption. Gentle Readers, I give you The Chattanooga.
What exactly is The Chattanooga? It's a "curative" medical-issue vibrator crafted for treating 19th and early 20th century women diagnosed with "hysteria."
The Chattanooga evoked therapeutic "paroxysms" that relieved "ailing" housewives and "delicate" ladies of their debilitating "nerves." I suppose that, yes, a regular schedule of machine-generated orgasms might take the edge off of stifling cultural norms. "Sure."
After all, an unsatisfied 19th century woman was a crazy 19th century woman, so nothing short of an extended Rest Cure and daily treatments with The Chattanooga would rid her of her desire for something more than domestic drudgery, thankless childrearing, suffocation-friendly fashion, unfulfilling marriage, and second-class citizenry.
And just for "fun," here's one more thingamadoo called The Manipulator.
Evidently the patient would lie prone on the table with her delicacies positioned over the small opening after which a switch was flipped and all her dreams came true.
(More "medical breakthroughs" at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health.)
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