Day: December 11, 2013

Front facade of Houghton Library

(Shock)ing! therapy

This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. The use of electricity in medical treatment is hardly a new concept, Guillaume Duchenne was a French neurologist and developer of electrotherapy.  Duchenne announced in 1855 that alternating current was more effective than a direct current for electrotherapeutic…