Experiments and Observations Relative to the Influence Lately Discovered by M. Galvani and Commonly Called Animal Electricity

The direct experiments, by which I was first led to adopt the opinion that the heart might be affected by the mechanical irritation of its nerves, were made upon very young cats...

But the most important, and characteristic difference, which I have yet been able to discover, between this new influence and electricity, consists in their effects upon the con...

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If, after having divided at the pelvis a frog recently killed, the sciatic nerves be freed from cellular membrane up to their origin from the spine, and all the parts below this...

M. Fontana seems too hastily to have adopted the opinion, that the sciatic nerves, when divided, are probably never reunited by truly nervous structure, because no reunion took...

Several considerations, however, induce me to believe, that such communication is absolutely requisite. If the contact of two different metals were alone sufficient to excite co...

I first became acquainted with this fact, while making the following experiment. Having laid bare the brain of a living frog, and put a stop to its spontaneous motions, by gentl...