An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute, and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London

II. The theory of animal electricity had scarcely been proposed, when a suspicion was entertained that it might be produced by some external agent excited by the arming or by th...

I had provided for this purpose a pile composed of eighty pieces of silver and zinc, and I at first administered the Galvanism gradually, forming the arc by means of the hands....

IX. Having made these experiments in vacuo and condensed air, it was of some importance to try also what effect would be produced on animal electricity by the action of the aëri...

The curiosity natural to a philosopher induced me to subject these birds to anatomical dissection, that I might examine what effects had been produced on the animal machine by t...

I extended an iron wire, two hundred and fifty feet in length, around my chamber, taking great care that it should not any where touch itself, and made its extremities to termin...

An assassin decapitated at Bologna, in the month of January 1802, afforded me an opportunity of verifying the truth of my former observations. In my first experiments on the hum...

The sciatic nerve being divided about the middle of the thigh, on applying the conductors from the biceps flexor cruris to the gastrocnemius, there ensued a powerful contraction...

XVIII. I shall conclude this dissertation with an account of some later experiments on this subject. Volta, in a letter which I received from him, requested I would try to produ...

To ensure the success of this interesting experiment, the nerves must be prepared as speedily as possible, by disengaging them from every foreign substance. It will be proper al...

XXI. Some, perhaps, will object to this analogy, that in the above experiments the flask destitute of electricity forms the arc; while, on the contrary, both flasks ought to be...

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Several reasons have induced me to prefer the medical administration of Galvanism by means of the pile, to that of artificial electricity. In regard to the action of the common...

[15] Mezzini, Volta, Valli, Klein, Pfaff, Berhends, have denied that the heart could be moved by the Galvanic fluid. _Hist. du Galvanisme_, part i. p. 145. Bichat could obtain n...