Shocking Frogs
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"... and still we could never suppose that fortune were to be so friendly to us, such as to allow us to be perhaps the first in handling, as it were, the electricity concealed in nerves, in extracting it from nerves, and, in some way, in putting it under everyone's…
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Luigi Galvani found the first evidence that the signals between the brain and the body are electric at the end of the 18th century in Italy.
But his discovery was almost immediately overshadowed by the much more immediately useful invention of the battery. After this, the very idea of bioelectricity fell into disrepute along with Galvani’s reputation.
Neurophysiologist Marco Piccolino and historian of science Marco Bresadola dig into the original controversy over animal electricity and detail how this schism would shape the next 200 years of neuroscience and electrophysiology.
The authors draw on deep-cut archival source material to conclusively restore…
From Sally's list on the history and future of bioelectricity.
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