Muscle testing.

Date:
1945
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Muscle testing. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Muscular contractions produced and controlled, electrically

Description

This film shows the apparatus used to create and control muscle contractions. It's not clear what the exact therapeutic use is. A man is subject to an electric current; first his abdomen, then his shoulder, back, buttocks, leg, calf, groin, thigh. A female patient has her muscles electrically stimulated starting with the pectoral and dorsal muscles etc. Finally her neck, ear, nose and face are stimulated.

Publication/Creation

United Kingdom, 1945.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (25:22 min.) : silent, black and white

Duration

00:25:22

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Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales.

Creator/production credits

Directed by Sir Morton Smart, photographed by Dr. H. Mandiwall.

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In English.

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