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DR. DE WATTEVILLE, whose death, at the age of seventy-eight, occurred in Switzerland on February 24 last, was a prominent member of the medical profession in London between twenty and thirty years ago. A Swiss by birth, scion of one of the oldest families of Switzerland, he was an Englishman by education, and qualified for the medical profession. He specialised in neurology, and more particularly in electro-therapeutics, which he did much to establish on a scientific basis. His work on “Medical Electricity,” which ran through two editions-the second in 1884- established his reputation as the chief authority on the subject in Great Britain. He specially insisted on measurements of current strength as the essential condition of a rational application of electricity, and led to the milliampere being adopted as the electro-therapeutic unit by the International Congress of Electricians.
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F., D. Dr. A. de Watteville. Nature 115, 432 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115432a0
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