Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 947.8

JOHANN GOTTLIEB SCHӓFFER (1720-1795). Die Kraft und Wirkung der Electricitet in dem menschlichen Körper Regensburg: Bey Emerich Felix Bader, 1752. 1st 92 pages, illustrations; 17 cm

Johann Gottlieb Schäffer was a German physician and naturalist; he worked first as a pharmacist in Schmolln, before obtaining his license to practice as a physician in 1745. This is one of the earliest German treatises on medical electricity. The frontispiece shows a patient seated on a bed connected to a cylindrical glass electrostatic generator and three Leyden jars.

Cited references: NLM 18th century (pg. 405)

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