vanifm. 



U2 ON THE ACTION OF G AL V ANlsflf . 



internal angle of the fame eye. The operation was attended 

 with fome pain ; it caufed tears to flow abundantly ; but after 

 having received fucceflive galvanic (hocks for half an hour, the 

 fight of the eye began to be reftored. Being unwilling to fa- 

 tigue the lady, and to allow time for nature to act, the opera- 

 tion was fufpended until the evening, when it was repeated for 

 thirty minutes alfo. The following day the eye began to per- 

 ceive the outlines of bodies. Having repeated the operation 

 for three fucceffivedays, (lie not only was capable of feeing ob- 

 jects and the phyfiognomy of perfons, but even the balls of their 

 eyes. Before this operation, in confequence of a confultation with 

 doctor John Baptifte Anforni, firft phyfician to the Hofpital de 

 la Charitd, I had galvanifed a girl of 27 years of age, of a 

 Cure of a para- melancholy habit, who, after fome flight attacks, had a hemi- 

 ^f ey a e ^ e y a ^j n _ of paralyfis of the right tide, which particularly affected the arm, 

 the cheek, and the eye. The other fymptoms had yielded to 

 bleeding, and the ufe of fuch other remedies as had been indi- 

 cated, but the eye remained eonftantly fixed, with pains in its 

 mufcles. Ten minutes of galvanifation were fufficient to ex- 

 cite an abundant flood of tears, and a difcharge of water 

 through the noftril on that fide which had been always clofed 

 after the above attack ; the pains in the mufcles were alfo 

 much alleviated ; (lie could even turn the eye to either fide, 

 but had great difficulty to raife or deprefs it, accompanied with 

 a fenfation of weight round the eye. The operation was re- 

 peated after a day's repofe, which reftored the complete free- 

 dom of motion to the eye, and freed it from every unpleafanfc 

 fenfation. 



Thefe two operations were performed in the prefence of fe- 

 veral perfons, and executed almoft wholly by citizen Hea- 

 cinthe Carena, teacher of phytic in the national college of 

 Turin. 



The advantages of galvanifm will appear flill more deci- 

 fively to you by the cure of the hydrophobia, lately accom- 

 plifhed by citizen Roffi, who will give a detailed and exact ac* 

 count of it in an interefting memoir, on which he is employed. 



A man whohad been bitten on the middle finger by a mad dog 

 came to confult him for the pains he felt in his arm and back, 

 and particularly in the finger, which had been bitten a month 

 before. The actual cautery, applied to the finger, removed 

 the pains, but in a few days they returned, accompanied by 

 4 fymptoms 



Cure of the hy 

 drophobia by | 

 'galvanifm. 



