Wall Mount Current Regulator Thing - Paul Seiler Electrical Works

Just wondering if this old wall mount electrical device has a proper name. The unit itself is from Paul Seiler Electrical Works. There is a rheostat marked O. Flemming. It seems the top part measured/displayed the current going through the unit.

Found information online about Seiler, but not much in the way of products that were sold.

 

Nice contraption!

 

It appears to be an "electro medical battery" ie quack medical device

 

Those were usually portable or table type kits. Don't think i've seen any quack related items that would mount to a wall. Could be though. The unit was with some telegraph related items.

 

It does look like he dabbled with electro medical devices. "His electro-medical apparatus is said to be highly valued on the coast. Some eight or ten sets of the apparatus are now in use in Oakland and San Francisco alone."

 

Sounds just ducky.

 

Could explain much......

 

https://books.google.com/books?id=e...q=electro medical battery paul seiler&f=false

Looks to be a portable kit type.

 

I did find this little snippet on the internet:

medical battery
Paul Seiler Electrical Works | San Francisco
c. 1900
When electricity was newly introduced it was seized upon by inventors and quacks alike as a new medical cure for many ailments.

Seiler also manufactured telegraphs.

 

Telegraphs
for
telepaths.

 

Top part a Galvanometer?

 

http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyAppa...ane_Galvanometer/Iron_Vane_Galvanaometer.html

pretty cool website in general. worth a browse.

 

Looks like something that would either confound @springfld.arsenal or he'd solve!!!