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Description: Luigi Galvani discovered that frog's legs twitch when electricity is passed through the muscles, a phenomenon called galvanism that lead to the subject of electrophysiology and treatment by electrotherapy.
Title: Galvani-frogs-legs-electricity
Credit: David Ames Wells, The science of common things: a familiar explanation of the first principles of physical science. For schools, families, and young students. Publisher Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman, 1859, 323 pages (page 290)
Author: Luigi Galvani
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License: Public domain
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