Editing Giovanni Aldini (section)

==Experiments==
[[File:Aldini's ox battery.jpg|thumb|left|Aldini demonstrating electricity generated by an ox head]]
[[File:Aldini, Giovanni – De animali electricitate, 1794 – BEIC 12443205.jpg|thumb|''De animali electricitate'' ("The animal electricity"), 1794]]

Aldini's most famous public demonstration of the electro-stimulation technique of deceased limbs was performed on the executed criminal [[George Forster (murderer)|George Forster]] at [[Newgate]] in [[London]] in 1803.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/9/10190.htm |title=AIM25 text-only browsing: Royal College of Surgeons of England: Aldini, Giovanni: Notebook |publisher=Aim25.ac.uk |access-date=5 August 2012 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220239/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cats/9/10190.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/History/early-nineteen.htm |title=Early Nineteenth century electrochemistry |access-date=21 October 2010}}</ref> The Newgate Calendar describes what happened when the galvanic process was used on the body:

{{blockquote|1=On the first application of the process to the face, the jaws of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent part of the process the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion.<ref>[http://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng464.htm The Newgate Calendar – George Foster] Executed at Newgate, 18th of January, 1803, for the Murder of his Wife and Child, by drowning them in the Paddington Canal; with a Curious Account of Galvanic Experiments on his Body</ref>}}