Efl:!perments with Voltd^s Gal'Vanlc Apparatus. %3i 



animal frame: and laftly. That, if the galvanic influence in 

 fomc of its properties be apparently analogous to the elec- 

 trical fluid, it differs from it in others in a ftriking degree. 

 ^ Thefe, Sir, are fome of the pofitions which the foregoing 

 experiments appear to fupport. If they fliall happen to afford 

 you any entertainment, you may probably receive another 

 fupply ; and I hope to be alfo, at fome future period, able to 

 afford you fome account of fomc trials of the galvanic influence 

 in the cure and mitigation of various difeafes. The galvanic 

 influence, as you very well know, happily admits of an eafy 

 application to any part of the human body. It may fleadiiy be 

 applied for any length of time^ with very little labour on the 

 part of the operator, and with lefs inconvenience on that of the 

 patient. Its action may be eafily increafed or diminifhed. It 

 may be rendered, at pleafure, perceptible or not, as the in- 

 dications of cure may happen to require ; and I have lately 

 contrived a piece of apparatus by which a fucccflion of gal- 

 vanic fliocks, weak or llrong, as the cafe may require, may 

 be given to any part for any length of time at the rate of ten 

 or twenty per fecond. 



I am, with great efteem and regard^ 

 Dear Sir, 

 Your very much obliged and faithful fervant, 



^ "' H. MOVES. 



Edinburgh, 

 ift February iSoi. 



XXVII. Account of Experiments Tnade in Germany ivith 

 Volta's Galvanic Apparatus. Communicated to th^ 

 French National Injiitute bj Dr. Fru lander of Berlin*. 



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HE firfi: account of Volta's galvanic apparatus was 

 eommunicated to Sir Jofeph Banks on the 2d of March 1800, 

 and the firft experiments made in England were undertaken 

 by MefTrs. Carliflc and Nicholfon, who, by its means, de- 

 compofcd watcif : they alfo reddened tin6lure of turnfol, and 

 precipitated metallic folutions in acids. Mr. Cruickfhank, 



'* From the Journal de Pby/iquCy Pluvlofp, an. 9. 



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