![]() Gruesome as it was, this work has led to the invention of the defibrillator.įor me there was too much emphasis on the Ure-Clydesdale experiment (we have a full description of the murder and the trial) and not enough on the science, but the later chapters contained plenty of interest. ![]() This book focuses particularly on the work of Andrew Ure, a Glaswegian anatomist, who experimented on the newly-hanged cadaver of condemned murdered Matthew Clydesdale in November 1819, months after the publication of Mary Shelley's novel, but it also looks at previous work, for example by Galvani and his nephew Aldini, both of whom believed in 'animal electricity', and by Mary Shelley's husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who was an amateur electrical experimenter and a believer in Paracelsus and a follower of the work of Humphrey Davy, who invented electrolysis. Summary Discuss Reviews (0) Includes bibliographical references (p. ![]() A history focused on the medics and scientists who tried to reanimate dead people using electricity, both before and after the publication of Frankenstein. ![]()
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