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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1793 Excerpt: ... to me sufficiently accurate, and for this reason: the before-mentioned quantity of five or six degrees does not call forth muscular irritability in all the circumstances under which metals are employed with success; and besides, this measure cannot serve as a common measure for all animals. Some time ago, I made several experiments with artificial electricity, and was at a loss how to determine by this way, the direction, of the animal electricity. I then learnt that the quantity of electrical fluid capable of occasioning strong contractions in frogs, when applied immediately to the nerves, lost all its power on making it pass over a metal conductor of great length, or through water, by forming myself a part of the chain. Nevertheless, the experiment succeeds in these animals with a conductor of 200 feet, (Paris measure) and even of still greater length. It is the fame thing, provided the the chain is composed of several people. The following is a striking instance: Twelve of us joined hands; one of the two at the ends of the chain touched the water of the glass in which the thighs of the frogs were placed, whilst the other person touched with a piece of silver coin the coating of the spine, which hung over the edge of the vessel in the opposite side. The animal sprung with force out Of the vessel. The experiment was repeated when the chain was interrupted, but notwithstanding the movements took place, the electricity passing over the floor. One of the persons who had withdrawn their hands in order to destroy the continuity of the chain, seated himself in an insulated chair. In this state, the experiment did not succeed, but he had scarcely touched the floor with his toe, before the animal sprung up and fell into convulsions. Artificial electricity, when em..


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231626436
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231626437
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 104 gr


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