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Electricity, Galvanism & The Resurrection of Thomas Weems

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The Experiments of Andrew Yu in Glasgow

Professor Andrew Yu carried out experiments on a recently executed criminal. Matty Clydesdale had murdered a 70 year old man in the streets of Glasgow. A light air tube connected with the galvanic battery was soon placed in one of his nostrils. The bellows then began gently to blow into that nostril in solemn reality. His chest immediately heaved, he drew breath and another tube was speedily placed in the next nostril. It made the executed body to heave all the more. Most of the muscles of the trunk and extremities answered feebly the discharges of the battery. And we declare he made a feeble attempt as if to rise from the chair whereon he

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