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

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    obferved, which feem to prove the contra- ry. In a lecture, fo long ago as October Lift, in which Dr Baillie of London men- tioned Galvani's difcovery, I think I re- member him faying, that he had twice or thrice produced contractions by the appli- cation of one metal only : and Dr Valli, in his 9th letter upon this fubject, fpeaks of his having done the fame with a pair of feififars, made of bad fteel, and in a frog re- cently killed. I think it not impoffible that there may have been fome unnoticed fallacy in thefe inftances. I happened one day to touch the crural nerve of a frog, with a fmall gold tooth-pick llid from a filver cafe, and the leg inftantly contracted; I again touched it, and it again contrac- 1 ted. At another time I obferved contrac- tions from touching a nerve, with a filver cannula, and at another from placing one in the folds of a filver chain. All thefe ap- peared at the time to be fo many decillve inftances of contractions from the applica- tion of one metal, till the following experi- ment