Galvanism is using electricty to bring something... well someone to life?

this is how in the book frankenstein [the green monster with a bolt through his neck!!!]... thats how the monster comes to life!

in other experiments, by making a current through a dead body [this experiment was through a dead frog] it twiches.... and in the book... the 'maker' said how the right current in the right places were needed. then twitch would become life!

 

its kinda hard to explain, but you know in a hospital when someones heart stops, they get an electric shock and 'jump' up, its the same theory....

{i hope you know what im talking about!!}

 

is galvanism possible?

 

it was a theory a long time ago.... but i havent heard of any research.... so i ask again...!

 

is it [galvanism] possible?

Electricity just depolarises nerves and results in an impulse that cause the muscle they innervate to contract.

 

The same with defibrillation; it just sends a charge through the heart depolarising the cardiac muscle cells all at once to bring them back in phase (beating together). Defibrillation won't work unless there is some activity, even if it's random (as in fibrillation). Asystole is a lethal rhythm. There's no activity and no amount of electricity will bring it back.

 

In short, whilst an electical impulse will cause a muscle to twitch, it won't make dead tissue alive. The same applies to an organism.

Hmmm, about the frog, I am not sure but I do think you poke its leg with a needle or something and the dead frog twitches?

I don't know too much about Galvanism though.