Shocking bodies
Subtitle: life, death & electricity in Victorian England
By: Iwan Rhys Morus
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780752458007
Subjects: Electrotherapeutics; Electrophysiological Phenomena; Electricity; Electrification; Electrophysiology; History, 19th Century; Parapsychology; Physiology; History
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.