Electrotherapy machine
Listen to the audio description
Can you spot a fake smile? In the 1860s, Guillaume Duchenne, a French physiologist, used electrical pulses to tweak patients’ faces, creating a map relating muscles to expressions. He found that truly happy smiles not only used the muscles of the mouth but also those of the eyes.
Source: Wellcome Trust
- Currently on display in:
- Who Am I?
- Inventory number :
- A630980



