... solve. In 1803, Giovanni Aldini used electric shock to induce muscle spasms in the corpse of a criminal hanged at Newgate. According to Tropp, "As in Galvini's earlier experiments with the legs of frogs, the momentary twitching induced by the current of electricity was mistaken for a short-lived spark of life" (54). It was widely held that due to such seemingly successful ... nineteenth - century scientists were wrong in linking electricity with life energy that her immediate concern for the future of the race was hasty. Nevertheless as the fascination with creating life goes on even to...

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