How did the word galvanism become connected to Luigi Galvani’s experiments?

The term "galvanism" became associated with Luigi Galvani due to his pioneering experiments in the late 18th century, during which he investigated the electrical nature of nerve impulses by applying electrical stimulation to frogs' leg muscles, causing them to contract.12

While Galvani’s specific theory that animal tissue contained an innate "animal electricity" was later contested, his work served as the catalyst for the term. The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt is credited with coining the French terms galvanisme and galvaniser around 1796, modeling them after the words magnetism and magnetize to describe the application of electrical currents. Although Alessandro Volta—a contemporary who engaged in a famous scientific debate with Galvani—is also noted for using the term to describe the phenomenon, the name was explicitly chosen to honor Galvani’s foundational discoveries in electrophysiology.123