He did not expect the electric shock from the galvanism within the old battery. From LearnThat.org.
English speakers borrowed the word as "galvanism" in 1797; the verb "galvanize" was introduced in 1802. From Wordnik.com. [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference
In galvanism, our countrymen have made many important discoveries. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
But galvanism applied to the spinal cord in the neck, causes contraction of blood-vessels. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
In medical science we have recourse to artificial respiration, artificial alimentation, and galvanism. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
Might not the marvel electricity or galvanism, in action on albumen, turn out to be the vitalising force?. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Felix] Reference
The electric fluid was known in the time of Thales, but how many ages did we wait for the discovery of galvanism?. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Balloon Ascents] Reference
That galvanism, ammonia to the nostrils, cold affusion, and stimulants by the mouth are practically useless in the early stage. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885] Reference
Confined to resolutions and conduct, its movements would be like the effects of galvanism on the muscles of the dead -- unnatural and spasmodic. From Wordnik.com. [The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character] Reference
Neither by chemistry nor galvanism can man, we apprehend, be more than instrumental and co-operative, not originally and independently creative. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
Sometimes, when life is nearly extinct in the human body, physicians have made use of the power of galvanism, in order to revive the dying energies. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Mathematics Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.] Reference
He began life as a painter, but did not give his whole attention to art -- chemistry and experiments in electricity and galvanism claiming much of his time. From Wordnik.com. [A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.] Reference
Generated by a spark of electricity that was similar to the galvanism that Mary Shelley discussed with Percy and Byron, cloning had been given the body of an Edinburgh sheep. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur] Reference
Probably calling to his recollection something analogous to what I have referred to above, he resolved to try the efficacy of galvanism to reinforce the vitality of the shrub. From Wordnik.com. [A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication] Reference
If excessive action of the brain or spinal cord be analogous in its effects to galvanism of a spinal nerve, it might be supposed to cause vaso-motor paralysis and hæmorrhage. From Wordnik.com. [The Education of American Girls] Reference
Electricity, galvanism, -- what discoveries in a few years!. From Wordnik.com. [Pearls of Thought] Reference
From him I learn that you are giving lectures on galvanism. From Wordnik.com. [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference
The best illustration, however, is to be obtained from galvanism. From Wordnik.com. [Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science] Reference
Has galvanism or electricity any share in the mysterious function?. From Wordnik.com. [The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother] Reference
The two agents were galvanism and the aura of the nervous system, commonly called animal magnetism. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8] Reference
There is another process in which galvanism -- But let us admit that M. Larinski's heart is real gold. From Wordnik.com. [Samuel Brohl and Company] Reference
The cause of young Ed's galvanism was so strong that he actually won from his aunt as bearer of the news. From Wordnik.com. [Rimrock Trail] Reference
This mental galvanism was rewarded by improved pay, enabling them to live comfortably till the end of 1838. From Wordnik.com. [Parisians in the Country] Reference
The most striking circumstance in galvanism, is, that it accompanies oxidation, and is perhaps never produced without it. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
I never could tell whether he had confounded it with electro-galvanism, or was only satirizing our American haste and feverishness. From Wordnik.com. [Stories in Light and Shadow] Reference
But ancient forms easily lend themselves to a revivification by meanings and applications, new or old, under the galvanism of democratic forces. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
This fact is undeniable; but they are understood to consist of ancient ecclesiastical deeds, as unconnected with poetry, as they were with galvanism. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
By experiments, not on lightning, which can not be commanded at pleasure, but on the same natural agency in a manageable form, that of artificial galvanism. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive] Reference
"I beg pardon," said the unhappy Orthodocia, with an awful galvanism about the corners of her mouth, "I didn't quite catch what you said -- I mean what I said.". From Wordnik.com. [Humour of the North] Reference
Having somehow managed to reach Liverpool, my dear friend, the Rev.Dr. Graham, took me there to a Doctor who had wrought many wonderful recoveries by galvanism. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals] Reference
One of the subjects which occupied him at the latter end of his life, was the theory and phenomena of galvanism, which, however, he never satisfactorily mastered. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers] Reference
Like many people in such sad circumstances, lie had tried all other remedies before thinking of the Water Cure; he had resorted to galvanism, and so forth, but always got worse. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
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