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" Cit. Nauches, the prefident, with his co-labourers Bo*« 

 net and Pajd-Laforet, have fucceeded, by the affiftance of 

 two homogeneous metallic conductors, in fubtracting the elec- 

 tric fluid of the brain, and fpinal marrow of an ox, immedi- 

 ately after its death, and conveying it to the thighs of a frog, 

 •where it produced mufcular contractions. This operation was 

 equally fuccefsful upon the palpitating mufcles, and could not 

 be prolonged beyond a quarter of an hour after death. The 

 fenator Lamartilliere has given an explanation of the difen- 

 gagement of mucofity by one of the poles of the pile, and 

 has made it appear that depends on a chemical decompo- 

 fition. 



Cit. Paroifle took notice that, of the mufcles, the dia- 

 phragm preferved its galvanic excitability the longefl. 



Cit. Izaer gave an account of the conftru6tion of a pile, 

 difcovered by Cit. Alizeau, in which the roundels, impreg- 

 nated with a faline folution, are replaced by moiftened fait, 

 and which preferves its power for a month, without being 

 cleaned f 



The committee of medical application, confiding of M. M. 

 Guillotin, Dudaujon, Petit-Radel, &c. have made a number 

 of experiments on afphixia produced by ftrangulation. 



f? The application of galvanifm to the cure of difeafes which 

 had been fufpended on account of the unfavourable feafon, is 

 to be refumed in a ward which has been appropriated, by the 

 minifter of the interior, to that purpofe, in the hofpital of the 

 Ecole de Medicine, and in a laboratory belonging to the fo- 

 ciety." 



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Prize Quejlion. 



The Society of Arts and Sciences at Utrecht, has propofed thefol- prize queftion# 

 lowing Prize Quejlionfor the Year J 803. Eleftricity. 



**, What is the true nature of the electric matter ? Is it a 

 compound ? What are the chemical changes it undergoes, 

 when united with other bodies, and which it produces in thofe 

 bodies ?" 



The prize, which is to be adjudged on the firft of October, 

 1803, confifts of 30 ducats; and the memoirs are to be ad- 

 drefled to Dr. Luckman, at Utrecht. 



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