aSi Galvanic Sodfij', Paris. 



]jght, by bringing one extremity of the voltaic pile into com- 

 nuinicalion with the hand or the toot, and the other with the 

 face, the fkin, of the head covered with hair, and even the 

 neck. There exifts a lineof demarcation, beyond which no 

 flaflies take place. 



Dr. Nauche has alfo confirmed with his fellow labourer?, 

 Tourlct; Lcgallois, Bonnet, DouUin-Dubreuil and Pajot- 

 Lafor^t ; 



ilL Thai reiterated applications of galvanifm, when they 

 comprehend the half of the trunk, produce in the perfon 

 fubjeded to them great agitation, many rc\ cries, involuntary 

 tears, increafed fecretion of faliva, an acid oralkalinetafte, a 

 great fecretion of urine, an increafe of heat and tranfpiration, 

 abundant fweat in the galvanized parts, great difturbance iu 

 the ftate of the pulfe, which is accelerated, and often imper- 

 ceptible at the moment of the commotions. 



ad. That the aftion of the galvanic fluid may be increafed 

 by drawing it offby a fliarp point, which does not appear to 

 nA at the moment of contaft. 



He has been able alfo to ftimulate the organs feparately, 

 by dire6ling to the nervous trunks, which diftribute thcm- 

 lelves to thefe organs, or which communicate with them, the 

 two extremities of the pile, of the circle of cups or of the gaU 

 vanic trough. He remarked that, by making the application 

 a bath charged with a faline folution, a ftrong galvanic halh 

 may be obtained, the etfe»5ts of which are mild, and fome- 

 times more advantageous than thofe obtained by other pro- 

 cefles. 



Paris, Dec. 17th. 



In the laft fitting of the Galvanic fociety, ISf . Robertfon 

 repeated experiments on the combuftion ot phofphorus and 

 metals, by means of a' very large pile compofed of plates of 

 copper and zinc. M. Gantherot announced that platina is 

 a worfe conduftor of the aalvanic fluid than iron. Medical 

 applications were not neglc6led, and among the ufeful 

 refults the following were mentioned: The cureofagutta 

 ferena, with which a domeftic of M. Gillct-Launionl, mem- 

 ber of the council of the mines, had been affe6tcd, by M. 

 Nauche, the prefident : of a fciatica, on the coachman of the 

 fecond, by M. Dudanjcon ; and of a palfy in tlie right arm, 

 by M. Pujot-Laforct. The fociciy appointed M. Laplace, 

 Aboville, Lcfpinaflb, Sue, Dubreuil, Paroiflc and Judelot, 

 to make experiments at the national ellabliflunent of the 

 Qmnze-Vingls on perfons born blind, 



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