For panel meters to measure high currents, especially at a remote location, there was a standard 1 mA, 50 ohm d'Arsonval movement that was used with an external "50 mV" shunt, i.e. full-scale current produced 50 mV at the meter. For current > 1 A, the 1 mA through the meter was negligible. A proper shunt was designed for four-terminal connection: two heavy bolts at the outside and two machine screws near the calibrated resistance (usually flat bars of a resistance alloy). The high-current connections were made to the bolts and the meter connected to the screws to avoid calibration issues with the high-current wires.
In this modern era, one can find surface-mount low-value resistors with four terminals, often used in high-current switching power supplies, for similar reasons. One should use a differential amplifier with careful layout of the sense leads with these devices.