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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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  • Oral galvanism, amalgam disease, or Galvanic shock was a term for the association of oral or systemic symptoms to either: toxic effects of amalgam fillings;...
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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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  • Galvanic series Galvanic skin response Galvanic vestibular stimulation Galvanism Galvanization Operation Galvanic, World War II attack which included the...
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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 history of bioelectricity dates back to ancient Egypt, where the shocks delivered by the electric catfish were used medicinally. In the 18th century...
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  • disappointment in him. Later, Mary, Claire and Shelley attend a public display of galvanism in which a dead frog is made to twitch by the application of electricity...
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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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    Use of electrical apparatus. Interrupted galvanism used in regeneration of deltoid muscle. First half of the twentieth century....
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    Thier- und Pflanzenwelt. (2 volumes), 1797. Humboldt's experiments in galvanism and nerve conductivity. Ueber die unterirdischen Gasarten und die Mittel...
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