On attempting to zombify George Washington:
(This image is also available on Etsy. Time to decorate the parlor!)
On later experiments with electricity--the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:
A few notable quotes:
"A man by the name of Luigi Galvani discovered that bioelectric forces exist in living tissue. After experimenting with dead farm animals, Galvani decided to move on to dead humans. Galvani would take the heads of freshly executed criminals, stick wires into their ears, and send an electrical current through them, making the face of the head grimace in horrible ways. These were social events that the whole family would come out for."
"It was a definite advancement from the homunculus experiment in 1572 when a physician known as Paracelsus attempted to create a small human by filling a flask with semen and keeping it warm in composting horse dung for forty days. Once it began moving, Paracelsus planned on feeding it human blood until it was ready to be educated. Somehow the experiment failed."
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