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Spécimen d'une Expérience Électro-Physiologique
Adrien Tournachon, Duchenne de Boulognenegative about 1856; print 1862
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
View of Dr. Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (de Boulogne) demonstrating the use of a machine, called a volta-faradic apparatus, to stimulate the facial muscles of a patient using localized faradization, or an alternating induction current specifically targeted at one or two muscles to produce a facial expression.
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- Title: Spécimen d'une Expérience Électro-Physiologique
- Creator: Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne, Adrien Alban Tournachon
- Date Created: negative about 1856; print 1862
- Location Created: Paris, France
- Physical Dimensions: 17.4 × 11.8 cm (6 7/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 84.XB.874.7.1
- Culture: French
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (French, 1806 - 1875) and Adrien Alban Tournachon (French, 1825 - 1903)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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