i heard that one of his legs was cut off from the rest of his corpse and suspended on this rig while the good doctor would send an electrical charge through it , making the muscles jerk-galvanization , i think the term was , proving something or other ... `` er ... yes , dorothea , you can explain it to us during your lecture tomorrow ... '' and though i did n't have much use for fast eddie , ending up on an anatomist 's slab was a fate that many of us were doomed for and so we could take no joy in his sad end .