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An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism

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An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism

Giovanni Aldini

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Giovanni Aldini electrified the dead and made muscles twitch, staging demonstrations that helped inspire Frankenstein. This account sets out his experiments in galvanism proposition by proposition, probing the strange power of current over animal tissue. A startling record from the dawn of electrophysiology. Witness the experiments that made a young Mary Shelley wonder what electricity might awaken.

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41 chapters

  1. 1GALVANISM,
  2. 2EDITOR’S PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4PART THE FIRST.
  5. 5PROPOSITION I.
  6. 6PROPOSITION II.
  7. 7PROPOSITION III.
  8. 8PROPOSITION IV.
  9. 9PROPOSITION V.
  10. 10PROPOSITION VI.
  11. 11PROPOSITION VII.
  12. 12PROPOSITION VIII.
  13. 13PROPOSITION IX.
  14. 14PROPOSITION X.
  15. 15PROPOSITION XI.
  16. 16PROPOSITION XII.
  17. 17PROPOSITION XIII.
  18. 18PROPOSITION XIV.

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