M0014511: Apparatus for treating teeth with electricity

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Apparatus for treating teeth with electricity.

Illustration of a "contrivance" for passing electrical charges through a tooth in order to stop the pain of toothache. Published in Cavallo, Tiberius: A complete treatise of electricity in theory and practice; with original experiments, London : Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1777.

February 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative: EPB/B/17100/1

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.