>This research included the muscular response to opiates and static electricity, for which experiments the spinal cord and rear legs of a frog were dissected ou

>This research included the muscular response to opiates and static electricity, for which experiments the spinal cord and rear legs of a frog were dissected out together and the skin removed. In 1781,[5] an observation was made while a frog was being so dissected. An electric machine discharged just at the moment one of Galvani's assistants touched the crural nerve of a dissected frog with a scalpel. The frog's legs twitched as the discharge happened. Just picturing this wild lab where you've got assistants preparing opiates, dissected frogs layed out with metal wires being attached to them, and spark-generating machines zapping in the background. What a scene, man.