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David Pescovitz at 12:38 pm Mon, Feb 13, 2006

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This is the Neu-Vita Occulizer, a vintage medical device for massaging your eyeballs. It's now up for auction on eBay for your quacktastic pleasure. From the auction description:
 02 I 06 32 27 81 12 SbA multipurpose eye massager from Neu-Vita, Ltd, England, marked with British patent 363101. Red rubber squeeze bulbs force a concave plunger against each eyeball when squeezed. When the thermoplastic eye cups are pressed firmly against the eye, releasing the bulbs will create a vacuum in the cup. The opposite end of the device is used to massage the eye by rotating each cylinder, thus twisting the eyelids.
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