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    Experiments on galvanism

    Date
    1804
    Object type
    Library reference
    R68357
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 185mm
    width (print): 120mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > frog
    Description
    Experiments 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 Galvanism in Soho-square'.

    Elements of was an early history of galvanism and Galvani's experiments in the 1780s and 1790s, and a practical manual showing how to perform experiments in 'animal electricity'.
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