Plate 5 from Aldini’s Essai théorique et expérimental sur le galvanisme, avec une série d’expériences (1804).
Featured on PDR in the essay The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Professor Sharon Ruston surveys the scientific background to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, considering contemporary investigations into resuscitation, galvanism, and the possibility of states between life and death.