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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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    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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    hesitate about employing a new physical agent, such as electricity or galvanism. In Braid's day, the Scottish School of Common Sense provided the dominant...
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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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    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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    Lussac received 30,000 francs from Napoleon in the third edition of the Galvanism Prize in 1809 for their research. In Paris, a street and a hotel near...
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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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    manner, and at the same time said all sorts of things about magnetism, galvanism, electricity, of the contagion of the close hall filled with countless...
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  • Alessandro Volta established the electrical nature of what Volta called galvanism. Modern geology, like modern chemistry, gradually evolved during the 18th...
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  • Samuel West – Sir William Chester, a renowned surgeon and pioneer of galvanism (series 1) Mark Bazeley – Garnet Chester, Sir William's cousin, also a...
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    Lister conducted a series of experiments using mechanical irritation and galvanism to stimulate the nerves and spinal cord in rabbits and frogs. and due...
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    November 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2018. Hare, Robert (1832) "Application of galvanism to the blasting of rocks," The Mechanics' Magazine, 17: 266–267. Note:...
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    property of galvanism has been noted by other observers, and lately by M. Romanesi, a physicist in Trente, who recognized that galvanism made the magnetic...
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    30,000 francs from Napoleon in the third and last installment of the Galvanism Prize. Careful analysis led him to dispute some of Claude Louis Berthollet's...
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    uncle's method of stimulating muscles with electric current, known as Galvanism. The experiment he performed on Forster's body was a demonstration of...
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    uncontrolled scientific progress, especially as at the time of publishing; Galvanism had convinced many scientists that raising the dead through use of electrical...
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    Dysfunction Sensory processing disorder Multiple chemical sensitivity Oral galvanism Tension myositis syndrome Wilson's temperature syndrome Wind turbine syndrome...
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  • Yankee, American Civil War prisoners recruited by their respective captors Galvanism, muscular responses to electricity Galvanic (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    philosophische Schriften (1773/81) Whittaker, Edmund Taylor (1910). "Chapter III: Galvanism: From Galvani to Ohm". A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity:...
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    Pitchfork described Signal as "an exercise in post-punk and no-wave galvanism". The band released Signal Remixes on March 26, 2021, which included reworks...
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    scalar potential, covering action at a distance. The third chapter covers galvanism, beginning with Luigi Galvani and extending through Georg Ohm's theory...
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    hysterical fits." By 1801, James Lind as well as Giovanni Aldini had used galvanism to treat patients with various mental disorders. G.B.C. Duchenne, the...
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