Galvanism, 1S9 



a fourth and fifth pile composed one of disks of flesli suf- 

 iercd to putrefy in the sun for fifteen days, and the other 

 formed of disks of the same substance moistened in oxyge- 

 nated muriatic acid mixed with nine parts of distilled water. 

 The results of these experiments, by demonstrating more 

 and more that the Galvanic fluid, drawn from the different 

 substances which compose the pile, has the power of carry- 

 ing with it, in its ciiculation, difterent matters analogous to 

 the respective bodies through which it passes, have induced 

 Rossi, Vassalli-Eandi, and Giulio, to conclude, 



istly, That Galvanism, though arising from electricity, 

 which, as we may say, is its basis, is not simple electricity, 

 but electricity so modiiied, that its effects are in no manner 

 similar to those of electricity properly so called, 



2dlv, That the oxygenated muriatic acid combined with 

 distilled water, in proportions always determined by the diffe- 

 rent cases in which it is employed, may be used with the 

 greatest advantage in the cure of various maladies. 



The latter discovery made by C. Rossi has been applied by 

 him with the completest success. He has employed oxyge- 

 nated muriatic acid externally in the manner above mentioiied 

 for the cure of very extensive gangrenous ulcers. The efiects 

 of this new remedy have been exceedingly great, both in tiie 

 hospital of Moncalieri, where several individuals, treated 

 without success by the common means for several months, 

 were entirely cured by this method j and in the hospital of 

 St. John, where the effects were so speedy, that in the course 

 of twenty-four hours gangrenous ulcers of the legs were re- 

 duced to tlie state of sunple ulcers. 



ELECTRICITY. 



Vassalli-Eandi has confirmed, by a series of experiment? 

 publicly repeated before Lelievre the celebrated miiicralogist, 

 member of the National Institute of France, what he iiad 

 proved in the year 1790, 



Istly, That metals and their oxide?, thrown on his elec- 

 trometer, bring thither a contrary kind of electricity : the 

 metal positive electricity, and its oxide negative. 



2dly, That the electric fluid does not affect the fluid of the 

 Voltaic pile, the action of which is not aheicd by the union 

 of positive electricity to the negative of the pile, nor by an- 

 other combination of electric and Galvanic conductors. It 

 is from these and oth'-r experiments of the same kind that 

 he has deduced ihc theory of Galvanism and its eflects, which 

 he explained in thciast sitting of his public experiment^ at 

 Ltie Athenxum of Turin. 



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