A little video from a few years back.
My cousin and I found an old Diathermy/X-ray charger/cauterizer/microwave generator/atomizer/vacuum therapy/electroshock therapy machine from 1919, Took it home and plugged it in... and poked it with lightly shielded metal objects. (all original cloth wire is intact so we decided, hey, what could go wrong)
As I was firing it up after cleaning out the small animal nests and inspecting the crazy old electronics, which looked surprisingly new inside, my cousin was reading off all the things from the patent numbers we recorded from the back of it on google.
Mostly it's outputs and what they were and trying to figure out what this thing was used for, eventually we did figure it all out.
Sort of regretting turning on the switches that "didn't seem to do anything" as they were connected to the Xray portion, but they were only on for a moment or two here n there. Until we figured out what we were looking at.
The Xray/Microwave generator likely used a phosphor screen, and is inside the right side of the machine.
We eventually cleaned it up, made it pretty, built a glass top for it, bought the OG spray bottle set for it (the bottles fit into the holes on the top around the heating lamp (red bulb) and attach to the pump output) the spray bottles were for everything from aroma-therapy, to
It has ports for electric scalpels and cauterizers, even muscle warming cuffs and violet wands.
The pump can be connected to inflatable leather cuffs for feet and arms to press blood around, The draws were empty but still lined with green velvet and in great shape inside.
This unit had been in a medical facility, likely since it was last used.
Everything seemed intact just, dirty from sitting.
We never picked up the probes or other tings for it, but we did clean it up and build a glass and wood top from drawn images of these units back in the day, the cherry wood and glass cost us more than the vintage and machine correct bottles we bought for it on ebay, the draws were then stuffed with old ottoscopes and medical tools we found or bought like glass syringes and so on, nothing from more than 5 years newer than the date of manufacture stamped on the plate in the back of the unit.
One of the coolest things we've found I think.
And absolutely my favorite.
This is the second video, after I got belted and literally blown over from touching it the first time with a... less shielded screwdriver.
That video I will link in this description after I upload it.
SIDE NOTE:
When turned on the streetlights outside my cousin's house flickered and NONE of the tv's inside worked, you could HEAR the sound of the electricity in radios that were UNPLUGGED and even light bulb filaments. Putting a compact florescent bulb within 5 ft of it would light it in your hand... Needless to say we don't operate it very often.
This thing sparked (no pun intended) a whole new interest in weird old medical quackery for my cousin and I, and you KNOW any urban explorations or antique shops we visit, we will be 100% looking for cool stuff like this from now on.

Blooper video here:    • I fuggin got zapped