July 2, 2013
Retronaut.com
1862:
Electrotherapy, Paris
“Guillaume Duchenne (1806-1875), French physician, demonstrating the use of electrotherapy. He applied electrodes to the cheeks of a woman to stimulate the facial muscles, at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris.”
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Tagged as 1862, early electrotherapy, early medicine, early photographs, guillaume duchenne, history, medical history, paris, steampunk