Experiments and observations relative to the influence lately discovered by M. Galvani, and commonly called animal electricity / by Richard Fowler.

  • Fowler, Richard, 1765-1863.
Date:
1793
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    gan to ooze through, in the middle of the wound. I applied the zinc there, and an ex- tenfive furface of filver to the tongue. Every time I brought the metals into contact, I felt a very fmart irritation by the zinc at the wound. 5. I made a piece of zinc having a fharp point, projecting laterally from its end. I applied this point to a hole in a tooth, which has fometimes ached a little, and applied the filver in an extenfive furface to the infide of the cheek. When the metals were brought into contact, I felt a very fmart and painful twitch in the tooth, perfectly refembling a twitch of the toothack. I thought this twitch double, and that one of them hap- uened before the metals came into abfolute contact-. I am now almoft convinced, that this is the cafe, for when I make the fil- ver reft on a dry tooth, without touching the tongue or fauces, I have no twitch on bringing the outer ends of the metals toge- ther : mowing that there is not a proper communication