An introduction to electricity and galvanism; with cases, shewing their effects in the cure of diseases / To which is added, a description of Mr. Cuthbertson's plate electrical machine. By J.C. Carpue.

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Two images on one negative: illustrations published in Carpue, J. C.: <i>An introduction to electricity and galvanism; with cases, shewing their effects in the cure of diseases</i>, London : A. Phillips (etc.), 1803. The apparatus devised by Cuthbertson, the instrument maker, worked when an intermittent current, provided by a clockwork mechanism, raised and lowerd a conductiong rod.

M0014546: The decomposition of water by means of the battery, designed by William Cruikshank in c.1800 / M0014547: Electrotherapy by means of a Voltaic pile

M0014546: The decomposition of water by means of the battery, designed by William Cruikshank in c.1800 / M0014547: Electrotherapy by means of a Voltaic pile

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