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 / by John Aldini ... ; to which is added, an appendix containing the author's experiments on the body of a malefactor executed at Newgate &c. &c. ; illustrated with engravings.

  • Aldini, Giovanni, 1762-1834.
Date:
1803
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Credit: 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 / by John Aldini ... ; to which is added, an appendix containing the author's experiments on the body of a malefactor executed at Newgate &c. &c. ; illustrated with engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE Dissertation oh animal electricitij, read in the Institute of Bologna in the year 1793 -___---_ 133 Second Dissertation on animal electricity, read in the Institute of Bologna in the year 1794 ----- 155 Conclusion ---------------185 APPENDIX ------' - - 189 No. I. An account of the experiments performed, by J. Aldini, on the body of a malefactor executed at Newgate Jan. 17, 1803 _ - _ _ - ib. No. II. Report presented to the Class of the Exact Sciences of the Academy of Turin, ^5th August 1802, in regard to the Galvanic experiments made by C. Vassali- -Eandi, GiULio, and Rossi, on the 10th and l^th of the same month, on the bodies of three men a short time after their decapitation. By C. Giulio - - - - 204 No. III. Account of an experiment made at Calais, on the transmission of Galvanisjn through an arm of the sea - 217 AN