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

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Grand electrical apparatus. In the possession of Mr. F. Lowndes medical electrician, St. Pauls Church Yard. This machine, esteemed the most complete and powerful in Europe, has established the medical character of the electric fluid as an efficient remedy in many of the most obstinate diseases.

Robert Woof, Stephen Hebron and Claire Tomalin, Hyenas in petticoats: Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley, [Grasmere] : Wordsworth Trust, 1997, p. 136 no. 108

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