Medical student playing with electric shock apparatus while Dr. Eugene Krohn looks on. 

ca. 1900, Black River Falls, WI. Gunther van Hagens photograph.

ofpaperandponies:

Ooooh electro-medicine. Galvanism and Faradism. Fascinating as hell…I’ll do a full post on them soon. All I have to say right now is that this was an age where it was perfectly normal to be a proprietor of both medical instruments AND telegraph equipment.