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40 PROFESSOR ALDINl’s WORKS.
following order Zink, tin, lead, antimony, bismuth,
copper, mercury, and silver.
Dr. Aldini, an Italian Professor, is the nephew of Gal-
vani. He has not only superintended the experiments that
have lately taken place, and which have been repeated and
varied a thousand different ways on the Continent, but writ-
ten several Treatises on this subject, viz. 1. De animali
electricitate dissertationes duee; 2. Del’uso e dell’attivita
deli’ arco conduttore nelle contrazioni dei muscoli; and,
3. Mem'orie sulla electricita animale di Luigi Galvani, &c.
In fine, many novel and extraordinary phenomena have
been produced in consequence of this recent discovery.—■
The legs of men and horses, a considerable time after se-
paration from their respective bodies, have been excited to
motion, and the dormouse has been aroused out of its win-
ter’s sleep, and irritated before the approach of summer,
into premature action.
How far future researches may reach, it is impossible
to determine; as it appears, however, at present, that
the Galvanic susceptibility survives unaltered, in certain
cases of suffocation, some practical good may be already-
derived from it, as although it does not apply to the general
practice of medicine, it may yet be employed with suc-
cess, in that branch under the immediate protection of the
Humane Society.
It should be noticed, that the present Professor Aldini,
is the nephew of Galvani, the author of the discovery;
and that the former has already exhibited his experiments
at Oxford; at Mr. Wilson’s Anatomical Theatre in Lon-
don ; and at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospitals.—The
Lecturers and Pupils of which, have presented the Pro-
fessor with a gold medal, iri honorable testimony of their
approbation. The art of Galvanism, however, is still in
its infancy; but it will be the province of this Museum, to
report every tiling new attd striking.
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following order Zink, tin, lead, antimony, bismuth,
copper, mercury, and silver.
Dr. Aldini, an Italian Professor, is the nephew of Gal-
vani. He has not only superintended the experiments that
have lately taken place, and which have been repeated and
varied a thousand different ways on the Continent, but writ-
ten several Treatises on this subject, viz. 1. De animali
electricitate dissertationes duee; 2. Del’uso e dell’attivita
deli’ arco conduttore nelle contrazioni dei muscoli; and,
3. Mem'orie sulla electricita animale di Luigi Galvani, &c.
In fine, many novel and extraordinary phenomena have
been produced in consequence of this recent discovery.—■
The legs of men and horses, a considerable time after se-
paration from their respective bodies, have been excited to
motion, and the dormouse has been aroused out of its win-
ter’s sleep, and irritated before the approach of summer,
into premature action.
How far future researches may reach, it is impossible
to determine; as it appears, however, at present, that
the Galvanic susceptibility survives unaltered, in certain
cases of suffocation, some practical good may be already-
derived from it, as although it does not apply to the general
practice of medicine, it may yet be employed with suc-
cess, in that branch under the immediate protection of the
Humane Society.
It should be noticed, that the present Professor Aldini,
is the nephew of Galvani, the author of the discovery;
and that the former has already exhibited his experiments
at Oxford; at Mr. Wilson’s Anatomical Theatre in Lon-
don ; and at St. Thomas’s and Guy’s Hospitals.—The
Lecturers and Pupils of which, have presented the Pro-
fessor with a gold medal, iri honorable testimony of their
approbation. The art of Galvanism, however, is still in
its infancy; but it will be the province of this Museum, to
report every tiling new attd striking.
CURIOUS