38 "Report on Vaffali-Eandi, G'mlio, andRoJJis 



India. In cafe of any diftant expeditions, they would be 

 found fuperior, being entirely free from all religious preju- 

 dices, and having no objeAion to the fea. 



While Cochin China remains in its prefent diftrafted 

 ftate, a favourable opening is prefented to the firft European 

 nation that may attempt to obtain a footing in the country. 

 Should the company, therefore, entertain a defign of forming 

 an eitablilhnunt in Cochin China, no time fhould be loft \v\ 

 carrymg it mto execution. 



VII. Report prefented to the Clafs of the 'Ec^^ril Sciences of 

 the Academy of Turin, l^th Augjijl 1803, in regard to 

 the G-Jvamc Experiments made by C. Vassali-Eand|, 

 GruLio, and Rossi, on the- xoth and i^th of thfi_ 

 fame MoJith, on the Head and Tnmk of three Men a Jl'Ori 

 Time after their Decapitation. By C. GlULlO. 



i. HE Firft Conful, in a letter to Chaptol, in which he 

 announced to that minifter the two prizes he had founded 

 to encourage philcfophers to make new refearches in regard 

 to Galvanifm, fays, " Galvanifm, in my opinion, will lead 

 to great difcoveries." This obfervation was juft and pro- 

 found : great difcoveries have already been made; Galvani 

 and Voira have immortalized their names, and feveral cele- 

 brated philofophers and phyfiologifts have rendered them- 

 felves illu(trious in this branch of fcience, fo abundant in 

 aftonifhing phaenomena : yet it is only in its infancy, and 

 there can be no doubt that many important difcoveries ftill 

 remain to be made. 



Vafiali, Roffi, and myfelf, have for feveral years been cm- 

 ployed in refearches on this fubject. While the firft examined 

 the" Galvanic fluid in every point of view, for the purpofe of 

 illuftrating its nature by nieans of a great number of inge- 

 nious experiments, performed with that care and exaftnefs 

 which are peculiar to him, Rofti and myfelf attempted to 

 explain the aftion of the Galvanic fluid on the different or- 

 gans of th6 animal cronomy. 



Sometimes I was obliged to interrupt my refearches by un- 

 fortunate circumftances, and at others by my adininiftrative 

 functions : but I have now relumed them ; and though fuc- 

 cefs has not yet crowned my efforts by any brilliant difco- 

 very, we truft, and with confidence, that we Iball be able to 

 add ibme valuable fafts to the hiftory of the animal econo- 

 liiy ; to rectify errors ; to confirm fafts already received ; and 



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