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English: Engraving of the electric eel from the surgeon John Hunter's 1775 paper to the Royal Society "An Account of the Gymnotus Electricus"
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Source https://archive.org/details/philtrans01229060/page/n9/mode/2up
Author John Hunter (surgeon), 1775 (drawing); James Roberts (engraving)

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Electric eel studied by the surgeon John Hunter in 1775

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