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Galvanism – Frankenstein science and the dead!

Galvanism – Frankenstein science and the dead!

How the recently executed were brought back to life 200 years ago

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Tony McMahon
Nov 08, 2019
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The Georgians and Victorians did love the shock of the new. And science provided plenty of thrills and spills. For example, the use of Galvanism to bring the dead back to life. Or so it seemed! What we might call Frankenstein science.

Galvanism turns a dead criminal into a real life Frankenstein!

At the start of the 19th century, a criminal hanged in Lond…

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