Experiments and Observations Relative to the Influence Lately Discovered by M. Galvani and Commonly Called Animal Electricity
by Richard Fowler
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About this eBook
- Author
- Fowler, Richard, 1765-1863
- Credits
- Produced by Elizabeth Oscanyan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QP: Science: Physiology
- Subject
- Galvani, Luigi, 1737-1798
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 46820
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46820
- Release Date
- September 9, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO THE INFLUENCE LATELY DISCOVERED BY M. GALVANI, AND COMMONLY CALLED ANIMAL ELECTRICITY .
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.SECTION I. Are the Phenomena, exhibited by the Application of certain different Metals to Animals, referrible to Electricity?
- 4.SECTION II. Has Magnetism any concern in the Phenomena discovered by Galvani?
- 5.SECTION III. What are the relations which subsist between the influence discovered by Galvani, and the muscles, the nervous, and the vascular systems, of animals? — OF THE MUSCLES. — OF THE NERVES. — OF THE BLOOD VESSELS.
- 6.SECTION IV. An attempt to investigate the Source from which the respective Powers of Nerves, and of Muscles, are derived. — Experiments in which the Sciatic Nerves of Frogs were divided. — Experiments in which the Crural Arteries of Frogs were tied as near to the Trunks of their Bodies, as where the Nerves had been divided in the former Experiments. — Experiments in which the Sciatic Nerve was divided on one side, and the Crural Artery tied on the other. — Experiments made with a view of ascertaining some of the Effects of Inflammation. — Experiments suggested by some opinions of M. Fontana.
- 7.APPENDIX.
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