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Electricity in medicine

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

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

    Civetti, Giulio. | Date: 1771
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    Essentials of medical electricity / by Edward Reginald Morton.

    Morton, Edward Reginald, 1867-1944. | Date: 1916
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Miscellany: French, 19th and 20th centuries

    | Date: 1804-1929 | Reference: MS.7460
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    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.

    Woodward, Henry. | Date: 1885
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    The value of electrical treatment / by Julius Althaus.

    Althaus, Julius, 1833-1900. | Date: 1895
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