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Spécimen d'une Expérience Électro-Physiologique

Adrien Tournachon, Duchenne de Boulognenegative about 1856; print 1862

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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