Francisque Crôtte applying his electrical remedy for tuberculosis to a seated woman. Colour process print, 1901.

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1901
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642235i
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Francisque Crôtte applying his electrical remedy for tuberculosis to a seated woman. Colour process print, 1901. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Founder of the Institut médical Crôtte in Lyon for the cure of tuberculosis, and author of Cure de la tuberculose et de toutes les autres affections de nature microbienne: historique et exposé, adjuvants, observations de cas de guérison, Paris: Combot, 1903

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1901

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1 print : halftone, printed in colours ; image 35.6 x 26.7 cm

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La cure de la tuberculose Descriptive lettering on verso, states that, with Dr [Albert?] Salivas and Mme Mary Alice Radde of New York, Francisque Crôtte had installed his antituberculous institute at 9 rue de Turin, Paris (subsequently, in 2004, the site of the Clinique Turin), where he had accomplished many cures by transfusing metals and powerful medicines through the pores of the patient's skin by means of static electricity

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Wellcome Collection 642235i

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