Experiments on the nervous system with opium and metalline substances ; made chiefly with the view of determining the nature and effects of animal electricity / By Alexander Monro.

  • Monro, Alexander, 1733-1817.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Experiments on the nervous system with opium and metalline substances ; made chiefly with the view of determining the nature and effects of animal electricity / By Alexander Monro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    0 B S E R VA *f I 0 N S on the Fluids were moving in oppofite Directions ; from which we may infer, that, in their Nature, they differ effentially from each other. 5. The Nervous Energy is flopped by a tight Ligature or by the tranfverfe Incifion of a Nerve, although its di- vided Parts are thereafter placed in contact with each o- ther; whereas the EleCtrical Fluid or the Fluid excited by the Metals, pafles readily, downwards or upwards, along a Nerve which has been tied or cut. 6. After the Limb of a living Animal has been amputa- ted, frequent Convulfions of the fame Mufcles may be ex- cited by applying Mechanical or Chemical Stimuli to its Nerves; whereas Ele&rical Matter difcharges itfelf fuddenly. Hence I conclude, 1. That the Fluid, which, on the application of Metal- line Bodies to Animals, occafions Convulfions of their Muf- cles, is ele&rical, or refembles greatly the Ele&rical Fluid.