Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1813

LOUIS ALFRED BECQUEREL (1814-1862) Traité des applications de l'électricité à la thérapeutique médicale et chirurgicale. H. Baillière 1857 viii, 376 pp., illus. 21.4 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 1812

This monograph did much to clarify the uses of electricity in diagnosis and therapy at a time when the phenomenon was poorly understood. In spite of such scholarly works as this one, the abuse and misuse of electricity by quacks continued well into the twentieth century.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.