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Dr. to Richard Trood, medical electrician : 78, Wigmore Street, London, W.

George Adams demonstrates his electrotherapy machine to a woman and her daughter. Line engraving by J. Lodge, 1799, after T. Milne.

Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.

Electrical machines: four figures showing various machines, with an illustration of George Adams demonstrating his medical electrical machine on a girl. Line engraving by J. Lodge and W. Grainger, after T. Milne and F. Blake, 1789.

A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: in the afternoon, nurses massage a patient, apply electrical muscle stimulation, knit and chat. Colour and coloured lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.

L'elettricismo : poemetto per le faustissime nozze delle LL. EE. d. Guido di Soragna e donna Giovanna Borromeo.

Essentials of medical electricity / by Edward Reginald Morton.

Miscellany: French, 19th and 20th centuries

A popular treatise on medical electricity : showing the influence of electricity as a remedy for diseases; and plain & practical directions for its application to various disorders / by Henry Woodward.

The value of electrical treatment / by Julius Althaus.

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L'elettricismo : poemetto per le faustissime nozze delle LL. EE. d. Guido di Soragna e donna Giovanna Borromeo.

Essentials of medical electricity / by Edward Reginald Morton.

Miscellany: French, 19th and 20th centuries

A popular treatise on medical electricity : showing the influence of electricity as a remedy for diseases; and plain & practical directions for its application to various disorders / by Henry Woodward.

The value of electrical treatment / by Julius Althaus.