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Zapping depression

Published December 1, 2008, 5:30 am, The Philadelphia Inquirer

In the late 1700s, Italian anatomist Luigi Galvani made a dead frog's muscles twitch when struck by a spark, a discovery that paved the way for the modern understanding of electricity's role in living things. It is the basis for countless medical technologies like the pacemaker.

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