Jacques-Arsene d'Arsonval: His life and contributions to electrical instrumentation in physics and medicine. part i: early life and activities in physiology [scanning our past]

Interactions between electricity and medicine date back many centuries. The therapeutic use of electric and magnetic forces to treat diseases has continuously captured the popular imagination, as well as the interest of men of science and instrument makers, including a very little fraction of an almost always unconvinced prevailing medical establishment.