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Francisque Crôtte applying his electrical remedy for tuberculosis to a seated woman. Colour process print, 1901.

A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-naked woman in front of other doctors and a nurse, other female patients are waiting in the background. Process print of a wood engraving by G.D.I. after D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.

George Adams demonstrates his electrotherapy machine to a woman and her daughter. Line engraving by J. Lodge, 1799, after T. Milne.

Francis Lowndes, an electrotherapist, treating a woman on an electrotherapy machine. Etching.

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.

Electrical machines: four figures showing various machines, with an illustration of George Adams demonstrating his medical electrical machine on a girl. Line engraving by J. Lodge and W. Grainger, after T. Milne and F. Blake, 1789.

Experimentelle Studien zur therapeutischen Galvanisation des Sympathicus / vorgelegt von Georg Fischer.

A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-nude woman in front of an audience of physicians (?), her mother or chaperone is seated at the front. Coloured pencil drawing by D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.

A system of electrotherapeutics as taught by the International correspondence schools, Scranton, Pa.

The medical application of electro-magnetism / by Samuel B. Smith.

A popular treatise on medical electricity : showing the influence of electricity as a remedy for diseases; and plain & practical directions for its application to various disorders / by Henry Woodward.

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Experimentelle Studien zur therapeutischen Galvanisation des Sympathicus / vorgelegt von Georg Fischer.

A doctor demonstrating electrotherapy on a young semi-nude woman in front of an audience of physicians (?), her mother or chaperone is seated at the front. Coloured pencil drawing by D. Urrabieta Ortiz y Vierge.

A system of electrotherapeutics as taught by the International correspondence schools, Scranton, Pa.

The medical application of electro-magnetism / by Samuel B. Smith.

A popular treatise on medical electricity : showing the influence of electricity as a remedy for diseases; and plain & practical directions for its application to various disorders / by Henry Woodward.