JF Ptak Science Books Daily Dose from Dr. Odd 
This cure-all from G. Anston looks simple, but the hydraulics of his nerve juice pumper is actually a little involved, or more involved than it needed to be given the fact that the machine didn’t actually do anything productive. That said, Anston was setting out to “move fluids” and cause all manner of cure-alls for “air stagnation” in the body, without the trouble of losing any time except for sticking those tubes into your nostrils. I do not know why the artist has the subject standing on #44 (the nerve-waste elimination tube) which was basically the tail-pipe of the cure-waste that was supposed to be flushed from a window. It seems as though stopping the exit of the stagnated brain-air and nerve-fluid effluvia might’ve made the subject’s head pop off a little, which would be problematical.
[Source: Google Patents, here.]