The Young Man’s Book of Amusement - a collection of crazy Victorian science experiments from the macabre to the silly, now available for free in a series of high res scans:
lateralscience.co.uk/ymboa/ymboa.html
The book will become available at the end of March or so, but in the meantime there are plenty of scanned snippets in case you need to know how to bring a drowned fly back to life or illuminate an egg or animate a corpse with electricity.