M0014498: Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne and a patient

Two images on one negative: reproductions of two photographs of Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne (1806-1875) French neurologist, with a patient or assistant. In one photograph Duchenne is faradising the cheek muscles, in the other he is faradising the frontal muscle. Published in Duchenne: Album de photographies pathologiques complementaire du livre intitule De l'electrisation localisee, Paris : Renouard, 1862

February 1956

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

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