Stories
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Charged bodies
Electrified humans brought education and performance together with a spark in the 18th century.
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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Catalogue
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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.
Madou, Jean-Baptiste, 1796-1877.Reference: 17903i- Archives and manuscripts
'Therapeutic Electrical Stimulation. The Transistorized Placebo?' by J A V Bates
Date: 1978Reference: GC/179/A.146Part of: Bates, John A.V., and the Ratio Club- Videos
Living pulse. Part 2, Brain stimulation.
Date: 2002
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Electropathy : a new method of treating disease by electricity.
Date: 1883- Books
Ionic medication in general practice : with introductionb to the theory and clinical notes.
Date: 1914