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Spécimen d'une Expérience Électro-Physiologique

Adrien Tournachonnegative about 1856; print 1876

The J. Paul Getty Museum

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 1876
  • Physical Dimensions: 16.6 × 12 cm (6 9/16 × 4 3/4 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.874.5.2.1
  • 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)
The J. Paul Getty Museum

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