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    Galvanism is a term invented by the late 18th-century physicist and chemist Alessandro Volta to refer to the generation of electric current by chemical...
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    the two scientists disagreed respectfully and Volta coined the term "Galvanism" for a direct current of electricity produced by chemical action. Since...
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    Luigi Galvani (1737–1798). His scientific work was chiefly concerned with galvanism, anatomy and its medical applications, with the construction and illumination...
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  • Galvanic series Galvanic skin response Galvanic vestibular stimulation Galvanism Galvanization Operation Galvanic, World War II attack which included the...
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    of liquid mercury in some novel laboratory apparatus he invented. Oral galvanism, amalgam disease, or Galvanic shock was a term for the association of...
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    Use of electrical apparatus. Interrupted galvanism used in regeneration of deltoid muscle. First half of the twentieth century....
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    discovered that electricity can make the muscle in a frog's leg twitch (see galvanism). Subsequent research in electrophysiology has been carried out by people...
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    the region of Geneva, Switzerland, where much of the story takes place. Galvanism and occult ideas were topics of conversation for her companions, particularly...
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    publisher) Untersuchungen über den Galvanismus, 1796 bis 1800 (Studies on Galvanism, Available through Worldcat.org libraries) Del modo di render sensibilissima...
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    principle of life. "Perhaps a corpse would be re-animated", Mary noted; "galvanism had given token of such things". It was after midnight before they retired...
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