M0012614: Illustration of frog's legs showing sciatic nerve

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Sciatic nerve, Galvani

Photograph of an illustration of Galvani's experiments on the sciatic nerve of frogs and the first detection of galvanic currents. This reproduction was made from Galvani, Luigi; Memorie sulla elettricità animale / Di Luigi Galvani ... al celebre abate Lazzaro Spallanzani ... , Bologna : Per le stampe del Sassi, 1797.

July 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds copies of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.