...muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye actually opened. In the subsequent course of the experiment, the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion, and it appeared to all the bystanders that the wretched man was on the point of being restored...

...initial administration of the current to the face, "the jaw of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. "27 In further experiments with the bodies of the dead, Aldini successfully produced movement in the...

...a massive battery of copper and zinc to the corpse's head and anus. As an eyewitness described it: On the first application of the process to the face,...and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion. It appeared to the uninformed part of the by-standers as if the wretched man was on the eve...