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

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    referrible to any known law of na¬ ture, or if it be itfelf a new law. Finding that it indicated, with tolerable accuracy, the prefence of very fmall degrees of the contrac¬ tile power of mufcles, without ap¬ pearing in the lead to diminilh that power, as electricity and molt other ftimuli never fail to do; I thought it might be ufed with ad- S ' . I vantage, as a teft, in the invefti- gation of forne important fubjeCts in phyfiology ; and I have accord¬ ingly employed it as fuch. I Every circumltance, obferved in the