title: [Birth of medical electricity].
abstract: In the mid-eighteenth century Jallabert treated an hemiplegia using electrostatic electricity and published the patient's recovery. Immediately, physicians and clergymen started to use the Nollet's machine to treat many neurological diseases and published their results. The Galvani's constant was also a medical seism when he though the had discovered animal electricity. Galvanism entered immediately medical practice for a long time.
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Renner
mesh_terms: D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004599:Electric Stimulation Therapy / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans