Excerpt from The Kansas City Review, Vol. 9: Devoted to Science, the Arts, Industry and Literature; December, 1885 The Galeazzi story runs something like this: One day, Galvani, her husband, was experimenting with a voltaic pile. She noticed that when the wires leading therefrom approach ed some frog's legs which she was preparing for dinner, a peculiar Spas modic muscular movement occurred, causing a twitching or jerking move ment of the same, and thereupon she called the attention of her husband to this seemingly strange phenomenon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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