Download or read book Galvani's Spark written by Alan McComas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galvani's Spark describes the gradual understanding of the nerve impulse. Proceeding from a chance observation on a frog leg, to studies on squid giant axons and bacteria, this book concludes with the increasing realization that ion channells are responsible for a variety of clinical disorders.