An essay on the medicinal properties of factitious airs. With an appendix, on the nature of blood / by Tiberius Cavallo.

  • Cavallo Tiberius, 1749-1809.
Date:
1798
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Credit: An essay on the medicinal properties of factitious airs. With an appendix, on the nature of blood / by Tiberius Cavallo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    [ *2t 3 pel them upon the furfaees of thbfe bo- dies between which they leap. I find that Dr. Franklin has made many fhocKs pafs through his own body, from an ele&ric jar filled with a ftrong purgativebii£ it was attended with no particular phe- nomenon. I do not know if he touched a wire communicating with the infide of the jar, in' which cafe the experiment would afford no proof againft my1 fufpl- cion; or if he difcharged the j^ by touching immediately the fur face of the purgative •“ and even then the experiment could not afford any general conclufion % it being poffible tliat the fkin does not ad- toi£ that particular fort of medicine, in thb lame manner as it does not admit the fait of fea-water. I am ignorant of any; parti- cular fubftance, but only inquire if there p , * 1 Xi may be forne. fubftance, whofe vapours might be insinuated through the integu- ments of tl)e human body by means of eledtric fparks. The following is an ex- periment which bears feme analogy to it. I put a large drop of mercury in the bot- tom of a china cup, one fide of which communicates with the prime conductor. On theoppofite fide I fix with pincers two pieces