Specification of George Kershaw : medico-electric surfaces.

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<p>Patent for a device "to produce medico-electric surfaces to be applied to such parts of the human body as require an artificial excitement to restore the functional energy of the nervous or membranous system of those parts". Basically, plates of metal (copper or zinc) which will "be set in action" by "reason of the moisture of the skin" which counteract paralysis.</p>

Specification of George Kershaw : medico-electric surfaces.

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