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A man brings his young wife to a natural philosopher's establishment so that she may receive electric stimulation. Lithograph by C. Motte after J. Madou.

Galvanism: 25 figures illustrating experiments and instruments, including the galvanism of a frog's legs and a cow's head, as discovered by Luigi Galvani. Engraving, 1790/1820?.

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.

Medical electricity : a practical handbook for students and practitioners.

Medical electricity / By H. L. Jones ... Being the third edition of Medical Electricity, by W. E. Steavenson, M.D., and H. L. Jones, etc.

Cases of indigestion, from disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels, and other complaints : as asthma, gout, blindness, deafness, lameness, etc. ; cured by galvanism, etc. ; with a lithographic print of the thoracic and abdominal viscera / by M. La Beaume.

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Medical electricity : a practical handbook for students and practitioners.

Galvanism: 25 figures illustrating experiments and instruments, including the galvanism of a frog's legs and a cow's head, as discovered by Luigi Galvani. Engraving, 1790/1820?.

Medical electricity / By H. L. Jones ... Being the third edition of Medical Electricity, by W. E. Steavenson, M.D., and H. L. Jones, etc.

A man brings his young wife to a natural philosopher's establishment so that she may receive electric stimulation. Lithograph by C. Motte after J. Madou.

Cases of indigestion, from disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels, and other complaints : as asthma, gout, blindness, deafness, lameness, etc. ; cured by galvanism, etc. ; with a lithographic print of the thoracic and abdominal viscera / by M. La Beaume.