Be it known that I, Agnes R. Sommerville, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Male-Genital Electrodes, of which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to electrodes which are particularly adapted to be used in the electrization of the male generative organs, where the best results are always obtained with very mild currents applied for a longer time than to other parts of the human body, for the purpose of ameliorating or entirely curing diseased conditions. The best results have not always been attained by the average skill in electrically treating the male generative organs on account of the electrodes ordinarily employed not being particularly adapted to the purpose…The object, therefore, of my invention is to provide a male-genital electrode which can easily be adjusted to the penis and testicles by the patient himself without the aid of skilled assistance and thus not only avoid the disagreeable objections to the usual methods of treatment, but at the same time provide an electrode by which localized electrization in the exact part affected can be attained.
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I love that this was invented by a woman.
