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1. Vol 1 The Belt and Its World What an electropathic belt is — the galvanic chain, corset, 'body battery,' and suspensory worn against the skin — and the drugstore-and-mail-order marketplace that strapped one around a hundred thousand Victorian and Edwardian waists.
2. Vol 2 What It Actually Did: The Current One genuine but feeble voltaic pile, a crowd of inert imitators, and the honest electrochemistry that explains why a belt of copper and zinc against the skin cannot reach an organ.
3. Vol 3 The Makers and Their Appliances Pulvermacher's Regent Street firm and its chain-belt; the muddled succession of Addison's, Owen's and Harness's Medical Battery Co.; Dr. Scott's magnetised 'electric' line; the mail-order Heidelberg belt with its Sears 'Giant Power' grades; and Overbeck's Rejuvenator — sorting the cities, dates, and priority stories that the trade deliberately blurred.
4. Vol 4 The Promise and the Reckoning What the electropathic belt was sold to cure — above all the anxious male body — and how the 1893 Pall Mall Gazette exposé of the Harness 'Electropathic Swindle', the AMA's 'Nostrums and Quackery', and the American mails-and-FDA enforcement that followed turned the belt into the emblem of Victorian quackery.
5. Vol 5 Collecting, Identifying, and Displaying How a collector tells a genuine voltaic chain from an inert 'electric' belt, reads maker marks and power grades, dates a set, conserves leather and metal, and displays the object honestly — with no use as a treatment.