A person who studies or practices galvanism, particularly the use of electricity in medical treatments or scientific research.
Formed from galvanism plus the agent suffix -ist, meaning one who practices or specializes in a particular field or belief system.
In the 1800s, galvanists were the original biomedical engineers—they tried using electricity to treat everything from paralysis to depression, which actually led to modern medical electrical therapies!
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