Shocking bodies

Description:

Although electricity was known about by the ancient Egyptians, it was not until the Victorian era that its potential really began to be realised. Luigi Galvani's discovery of bioelectricity opened up a whole new world of possibilities, in which it could cure sickness, restore sexual potency and even raise the dead.

subjects: Electrotherapeutics,  Electrophysiological Phenomena,  Electricity,  Electrification,  Electrophysiology,  History, 19th Century,  Parapsychology,  Physiology,  History,  Electricity, physiological effect,  Power resources, great britain,  Social aspects

Places: England,  London

Times: 19th century