Galvanic Experiments on Men and Animals. 1 3 \ 



as to render it jjerfcctly safe not only to the attendants but 

 to the rest of the family, take a china teacup and saucer, 

 put into tlie cup two ounces of common salt and half an 

 ounce of the black oxide of manganese, previously pow- 

 dered, with one ounce of water ; then take an ounce and 

 half of sulphuric acid, and pour a little of it now and then 

 into the teacup among the other ingredients : immediately 

 an amazing quantity of oxygenated muriatic acid gas will 

 be disengaged, and diffused through the apartment : this 

 should be suffered to remain only a few minutes, removing 

 it out of the room into the staircase ; by which means the 

 Avhole house will become impregnated with this ga§eous 

 oxygenant : it \\ill be proper to take it into the room fre- 

 quently daring the day, adding to it a little fresh sulphuric 

 acid, and then replacing it m its former situation. 



It was my intention to have transmitted a more minute 

 account of the scarlet fever, and its mode of treatment by 

 this oxvgcnant remedy, illustrated with cases ; but suffering 

 at present under an ar'thrinc complaint, I found myself in- 

 adequate to the undertaking : perhaps at some future period 

 I may again take up the pen to corroborate w hat I have as-^ 

 sertetl : Should this, however, be the means of rescuing one 

 individual from a premature grave, tlie intention of the writer 

 will in some degree be accomplished. 



Lancaster, 

 March i, 1S04. 



XX. Heport of Galvanic Experinients made on Men and 

 ylnimab. Read to the C^lass of the Exact Scicfices of 

 the Academy of Turin hj C. Kossi *. 



I. Experiments 6n Rabbits snjfohifed in Hater. 

 Thermometer 7°t; barometer 07 inches; pile 25 disks. 



XlAViNG cut off the hair. from the nape of the neck and 

 the stomach of a rabbit, I suffocated it in d pail of water, 

 and, as it gave no apparcTit signs of life, I galvanized it for 

 twentv minutts ; but in vain, as it waS really dead. 1 did 

 the saiiic tiling to another, which I drew sooner ffom the 

 water, that is to say, while it still exhibited signs of life 3 

 but I was not able to save it by means of galvauis'm. 



''* From the Journal de Vh'i'qKi:, Vend. an. is. 



+ \Vc suppo.c Reaumur'^ is meant = 44-'6 ^'alir. — Eprr. 



I -J A tinrd. 



