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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    that natural endeavour; but experience fhews the certainty of the fad:, and with it we muft be gratefully contented; for we may apply the effeds to our wants, though we are ignorant of their caufe, and of its mode of ading. When an eledric fhock is fent through any part of the body, an inftantaneous involuntary motion or convulfion is occafioned; which fhews that the mufcular fibres through which the fhock is fent, are expanded, or in fome other manner convulfed. This involun- tary motion, though not fo ftrongly, is occafioned alfo by fparks, and often even by drawing the fluid.-—Farther, when a fhock is fent through or over feveral fub- ftances befides the human body, a tremu- lous motion and an expanfion is evidently occafioned, as may be fhewn by many eledrical experiments. Now all thefe obfervations may perhaps, in a manner, explain the adion of eledricity upon the organized parts of an animal body, by comparing it with the tremulous motion given to pipes of any fort, through which fluids are tranfmitted, in order to accele- rate