Article ID: CBB000048753

The purpose of the Parthian galvanic cells: A first-century A.D. electric battery used for analgesia (1993)

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Description Argues that the purpose of the cells was not for electroplating but as a substitute for the use of electric fish as a local analgesic.


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Authors & Contributors
Snow, Stephanie J.
Conacher, I. D.
Vannozzi, Francesca
Terenna, Gigliola
Ridder, Paul
Rae, Ian D.
Journals
Journal of Medical Biography
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Journal of the History of Dentistry
Gesnerus
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Publishers
Drew University
Palgrave Macmillan
Oxford University Press
Nuova Immagine Editrice
Hirzel
Erasmus Publishing
Concepts
Anesthesia
Medicine
Surgery
Pain
Medical technology
Medicine and culture
People
Simpson, James Young
George VI, King of Great Britain
Levy, Alfred Goodman
Fourneau, Ernest
Davy, Humphry
Bigelow, Jacob
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Great Britain
England
United States
Germany
France
Institutions
Institut Pasteur, Paris
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