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  • Blunt's electrotherapeutic machine. Invented by Edward Nairne, 1800-1827.
  • Dispensing of medical electricity (electrotherapy). Oil painting by Edmund Bristow, 1824.
  • Dispensing of medical electricity (electrotherapy). Oil painting by Edmund Bristow, 1824.
  • A man in a bath receiving gentle electrical currents as a form of therapy. Photograph after a wood engraving.
  • A man in a bath receiving gentle electrical currents as a form of therapy. Photograph after a wood engraving.
  • 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 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.
  • Francisque Crôtte applying his electrical remedy for tuberculosis to a seated woman. Colour process print, 1901.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An early cardiograph used by J.B.A. Chauveau. Photograph.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Francis Lowndes, an electrotherapist, treating a woman on an electrotherapy machine. Etching.
  • Francis Lowndes, an electrotherapist, treating a woman on an electrotherapy machine. Etching.
  • George Adams demonstrates his electrotherapy machine to a woman and her daughter. Line engraving by J. Lodge, 1799, after T. Milne.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
  • Mountainous view of Sanatorium Bad Suderode in the Harz mountains, Germany. Reproduction of a drawing.
  • Von Ziemssen's handbook of general therapeutics.
  • Von Ziemssen's handbook of general therapeutics.