1876 SEATED QUARTER COUNTERSTAMP ~ BOYD ~ for BOYD'S BATTERY ~ BRUNK #B-972

Description: 1876 SEATED QUARTER COUNTERSTAMP ~ BOYD ~ for BOYD'S BATTERY (Patent Medicinal) ~ BRUNK #B-972 The most famous of the galvanic medical batteries was the Boyd's Battery. They were made with different metals that promised to create a healing electrical current when pressed against your skin. The galvanic properties were released by the different metals reacting to the moisture in your skin. Some people claimed that they tingled as they worked to draw out the bad energies from your body and replace them with good energy.Boyds Battery came out in 1878 and was "improved" in 1879. He writes in his book "Boyds Battery", that two of his employees stole his idea and created the Sagendorph Battery which was a direct knockoff of Boyd's design. Boyd claimed that their battery was just a combination of metals that did not do anything as opposed to his battery that was a combination of metals that did cure ills.

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