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Medico-galvanic Battery

  • Part of Wonders of electricity and the elements, being a popular account of modern electrical and magnetic discoveries, magnetism and electric machines, the electric telegraph and the electric light, and the metal bases, salt, and acids
  • 1870 – 1900

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Diagram depicting a medico-galvanic battery, a type of portable shock-producing electrotherapeutic device commonly in use between 1870 and 1920. Such devices provided both direct and alternating current and were thought to cure a wide variety of ailments.

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  • Ward, Lock & Co.
Place of publication
  • England--London
Format
  • Image
  • Text
Genre
  • Illustrations
  • Publications
Extent
  • 19 cm
Language
  • English
Subject
  • Electric batteries
  • Electric machines
  • Electricity
  • Electrotherapeutics
  • Electrotherapeutics--Instruments
  • Medical instruments and apparatus
  • Scientific apparatus and instruments
  • Scientific illustration
Rights Public Domain Mark 1.0
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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Ward, Lock. “Medico-Galvanic Battery.” Wonders of Electricity and the Elements, Being a Popular Account of Modern Electrical and Magnetic Discoveries, Magnetism and Electric Machines, the Electric Telegraph and the Electric Light, and the Metal Bases, Salt, and Acids. London, England, 1870–1900. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ucedlzb.

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