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INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF GALVANISM.
To improve these trials, he adds, that Mr. Keate, the
Master, in particular, proposed to make comparative ex-
periments on animals, in order to give support to the de-
ductions resulting from those on the human body. Mr.
Bliche observed, that on similar occasions it would be pro-
per to immerse the body in a warm salt bath, in order to
ascertain how far that powerful and extended coating might
promote the action of Galvanism on the whole surface of
the body. Dr. Pearson recommended oxygen gas to be
substituted instead of the atmospheric air blown into the
lungs. Mr. Aldini observes, it gives me great pleasure to
have an opportunity of communicating these observations
to the public, in justice to the eminent characters who
suggested them; and, as an inducement to physiologists,
not to overlook the minutest circumstance which may tend
to improve experiments that promise so greatly to relieve
the sufferings of mankind.
For a clear and concise history of this interesting dis-
covery, our Readers are referred to the following parti-
culars :—
About forty years since, Sutzer and Cottuni made some
evident advances in this science; yet, Vassale, a Member
of the Academy of Turin, published a variety of experi-
ments upon it, in 1789. But it was reserved for another,
to throw new light upon this important subject.
Luigi Galvani, Professor of Anatomy, in the University
of Bologna, after interrogating nature with all the patience
and ability of a philosopher, communicated her re-
sponses, by pronouncing the existence of an electrico-ani-
mal fluid. In his celebrated Book, 11 De viribus electrici-
tatis in motu musculari,” he describes the various facts col-
lected by him, in consequence of long and scientific re-
searches. The first thing that arrested his attention, was
the contractions manifested by a frog, every time that a
spark was drawn from an electrical machine, provided the
crural
INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF GALVANISM.
To improve these trials, he adds, that Mr. Keate, the
Master, in particular, proposed to make comparative ex-
periments on animals, in order to give support to the de-
ductions resulting from those on the human body. Mr.
Bliche observed, that on similar occasions it would be pro-
per to immerse the body in a warm salt bath, in order to
ascertain how far that powerful and extended coating might
promote the action of Galvanism on the whole surface of
the body. Dr. Pearson recommended oxygen gas to be
substituted instead of the atmospheric air blown into the
lungs. Mr. Aldini observes, it gives me great pleasure to
have an opportunity of communicating these observations
to the public, in justice to the eminent characters who
suggested them; and, as an inducement to physiologists,
not to overlook the minutest circumstance which may tend
to improve experiments that promise so greatly to relieve
the sufferings of mankind.
For a clear and concise history of this interesting dis-
covery, our Readers are referred to the following parti-
culars :—
About forty years since, Sutzer and Cottuni made some
evident advances in this science; yet, Vassale, a Member
of the Academy of Turin, published a variety of experi-
ments upon it, in 1789. But it was reserved for another,
to throw new light upon this important subject.
Luigi Galvani, Professor of Anatomy, in the University
of Bologna, after interrogating nature with all the patience
and ability of a philosopher, communicated her re-
sponses, by pronouncing the existence of an electrico-ani-
mal fluid. In his celebrated Book, 11 De viribus electrici-
tatis in motu musculari,” he describes the various facts col-
lected by him, in consequence of long and scientific re-
searches. The first thing that arrested his attention, was
the contractions manifested by a frog, every time that a
spark was drawn from an electrical machine, provided the
crural