AD 1831

Carlo Matteucci

Measures electricity in muscle injury

Carlo Matteucci, a professor of physics at Pisa, was able to show that Galvani's animal electricity was real. Using a very sensitive galvanometer, he was able to show that an injured muscle emitted a small electric current and it was this injury current that Galvani had witnessed when the dissected frog leg jumped without the aid of metallic or atmospheric electricity. He was not able to detect it in the nervous system only from the wound itself.

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