aSa Galvanic Society. 



tending to prove that Galvanifm is of very little ufe in deaf- 

 nefs. 



M. Mojon gave an account of feme experiments which 

 feem to prove that Galvanifm is proper for retarding the pu- 

 tridity of animal matters. 



M. Nauchc the prefident, and Pajot-Laforet, communi- 

 cated a new Galvanic phrenomenon. Having fuhjeiled to 

 the action of the pile frogs expofed to a temperature of ten 

 degrees helow zero, they obfervcd, that repeated contaft of 

 the condu6lor communicating with the copper pole produces 

 the development of a whitifh mucous fluid, exceedingly abun- 

 dant in the liver, lungs, and particularly the nerves and the 

 heart; not verv abundant in the mufcles, the inteftines, and 

 none in the integuments ; while the conductor in communi- 

 cation with the zinc pule produces no development of this 

 fluid, and fcems rather to caufe that which has been pro- 

 duced to diiappcar. 



C. Gautherot has made a feries of experiments tendiug to 

 prove that ele6iricitv is developed iu the ratio of the lurfaccs. 



C. Nauche the prefident, with his. fellow-labourers Bonnet 

 and Pajot-Laloret, has been able, by means of two homoge- 

 neous metallic conduftors, to draw off the eleftric fluid from 

 the brain and (pinal marrow of an ox recently killed, and to 

 convey it to the thighs of a frog, where it produced muleular 

 contractions. This operation lucceedcd alfo in the palpi- 

 tating mufcles, and could be continued only a quarter of an 

 hour after death. The fcnator Lamarlilliere gave an explana- 

 tion of the difcngagement of mucous matter by the poles^ 

 and Ihowed that it arifes from a chemical dccompofition. 



C. Izarn gave an account of the conltru6lion of a pile in- 

 vented by C. Alizeau, in which, inflead of diflcs moiflened 

 with a faline folution, a llratum ot moiftened fait is employed, 

 and which can produce its cffecSls for a month without being 

 cleaned. 



The Commiflnon of Medical Application, confifling of 

 Guillotin. Diidaujon, Petit-Kadel, &c. have made a great 

 number of experiments on afphyxia by flrangulation. 



The application of Galvanifm to difcales, fuipended in con- 

 fequence of the winter fealbn, is going to be relumed at a 

 place dcOined for the purpofe in the School of Medicine, and 

 \\\ the private laboratory of the fociety. 



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