Experiments on galvanism mb-height 1546 Lord Mayor's Show passing premises

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Experiments on galvanism mb-height 1546 Lord Mayor's Show passing premisesExperiments on galvanism carried out by Italian physicist Giovanni Aldini. Figure 1 shows 'the manner of producing convulsions in cold blooded animals, by the influence of warm blooded animals'; Figures 2, 3 and 4 show various methods of inducing muscular convulsions in frog muscles via the application of an electric current. Illustration from Elements of galvanism, in theory and practice, by Charles Henry Wilkinson (London, 1804) the 'Lecturer on