Editing Luigi Galvani (section)

== Early life ==
[[File:Luigi Galvani Experiment.jpeg|thumb|Experiment ''De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari'']]
[[File:Galvani frog legs experiment setup.png|thumb|Late 1780s diagram of Galvani's experiment on frog legs]]
Luigi Galvani was born to Domenico Galvani and Barbara Caterina Foschi, in [[Bologna]], then part of the [[Papal States]].{{sfn|Heilbron|2003|page=323}} The house in which he was born may still be seen on Via Marconi, 25, in the center of Bologna.<ref name= "Circulation_1962">{{cite journal | vauthors = | title = Galvani and the Electrophysiology of Muscular Contraction | journal = Circulation | volume = 26 | issue =  | pages = 11| date = 1962 | doi = |url=|pmid =  | pmc= }}</ref> Domenico was a [[goldsmith]].{{sfn|Heilbron|2003|page=323}} His family had produced several illustrious men.<ref name="Circulation_1962"/>

Galvani then began taking an interest in the field of "medical electricity". This field emerged in the middle of the 18th century, following electrical researches and the discovery of the effects of electricity on the human body by scientists including Bertrand Bajon and [[Ramón María Termeyer]] in the 1760s,<ref name="de Asúa 2008">{{cite journal |last=de Asúa |first=Miguel |title=The Experiments of Ramón M. Termeyer SJ on the Electric Eel in the River Plate Region (c. 1760) and other Early Accounts of Electrophorus electricus |journal=Journal of the History of the Neurosciences |volume=17 |issue=2 |date=9 April 2008 |doi=10.1080/09647040601070325 |pages=160–174|pmid=18421634 }}</ref> and by [[John Walsh (scientist)|John Walsh]]<ref name="Edwards 2021">{{cite web |last=Edwards |first=Paul |title=A Correction to the Record of Early Electrophysiology Research on the 250th Anniversary of a Historic Expedition to Île de Ré |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03423498/document |publisher=HAL open-access archive |access-date=6 May 2022 |date=10 November 2021 |id=hal-03423498 }}</ref><ref name="Alexander 1969">{{cite journal |last=Alexander |first=Mauro |title=The role of the voltaic pile in the Galvani-Volta controversy concerning animal vs. metallic electricity |journal=[[Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences]] |year=1969 |volume=XXIV |issue=2 |pages=140–150 |doi=10.1093/jhmas/xxiv.2.140 |pmid=4895861 }}</ref> and [[Hugh Williamson]] in the 1770s.<ref name="VanderVeer 2011">{{cite journal |last=VanderVeer |first=Joseph B. |title=Hugh Williamson: Physician, Patriot, and Founding Father |journal=Journal of the American Medical Association |volume=306 |issue=1 |date=6 July 2011 |doi=10.1001/jama.2011.933 }}</ref><ref name="Bresadola 367–380">{{cite journal |last=Bresadola |first=Marco |title=Medicine and science in the life of Luigi Galvani |journal=Brain Research Bulletin |date=15 July 1998 |volume=46 |issue=5 |pages=367–380 |doi=10.1016/s0361-9230(98)00023-9 |pmid=9739000 |s2cid=13035403}}</ref>