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The electrical tension, which would stimulate the circulation of the blood, lymph and protoplasm, could cure various ailments, namely influenza, asthma, muscular pain, gangrene, anaemia, obesity and even cancer.<br\/>Such an apparatus, housed in our Science and Technology Conservation Unit, bore witness to electricity&#8217;s application in the field of medicine at the beginning of the 20th century. It was produced in Austria by Ludwig Schulmeister due to the dissemination of Emil du Bois-Reymond&#8217;s works. Bois-Reymond was a physiologist from Berlin, for whom the composition of living tissue, like muscle, was made up of countless electrical molecules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the late 19th century electrotherapy witnessed a great expansion within the medical community. 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