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Etienne Jules Marey’s Instruments and Memories

An important collection of instruments devised and used by Etienne Jules Marey can be seen in the Musée d’Histoire de la Médecine at the Université Paris Descartes in Paris.

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Photos by Luca Borghi (July 2014), courtesy of the Museum’s direction

In addition to the beautiful commemorative bronze plaque designed by Paul Richer and depicting the scientist in the background of his Station Physiologique,

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Photos by Luca Borghi (July 2014), courtesy of the Museum’s direction

you can admire a specimen of the famous portable sphygmograph (1860s)

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Photos by Luca Borghi (July 2014), courtesy of the Museum’s direction

a poligraph to simultaneously record blood pression and pulse rhythm

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Photos by Luca Borghi (July 2014), courtesy of the Museum’s direction

and various others…

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Photos by Luca Borghi (July 2014), courtesy of the Museum’s direction
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Photos by Luca Borghi (July 2014), courtesy of the Museum’s direction
  • Photos by Luca Borghi @ (July 2014), courtesy of the Museum’s direction
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