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College Collectables: magneto electrotherapeutic machine

by Iain Milne Librarian

Magneto portable electrotherapeutic machineIn January 2006 Dr Andrew Ryle presented the College with an example of a magneto portable electrotherapeutic machine. This particular machine was been used by his general practitioner grandfather in Brighton in the early 20th Century.

These machines were very popular in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first years of the 20th century when the term electrotherapeutics was used to denote a well known, if controversial, type of treatment.

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