Outlines of the origin and progress of galvanism : with its application to medicine : in a letter to a friend / by William Meade.

Date:
1805
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Credit: Outlines of the origin and progress of galvanism : with its application to medicine : in a letter to a friend / by William Meade. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with tlie._other; by thid uieaiis imitating, lii fomc tlegieCj the coating of the Leyden vial. ^- Since tliis, Iiowev€r, Van Marum,* of Haerlem, has fucceeded ia cl^arging a battery with the pile, and , has gone farther than ai^y other perfon to prove the identity of Gaivanifiii and the eledric fluid. But notwithfunding this, from a variety of other orcumftaoces, fu^^ as the difterent fenfation pro- duced by the fliock,,the neceflity of the hands be- ing wet to receive it, and its producing no report; the appearance both of the fiafh and the fpark^ an3 the trifling appearance of oth^r eled^-ical pheno- mena, it is not furprifing that philpfophers iliGuld doubt ks being enl^rely an eleftric phenomenon 5 or, feeing fonie figns cf eledricity, fliould attribute it, in pari:, to ,a .chemical agent, modified by fome imlvnown eledric circumftance. ^ i-F^t^rpnl was the firft ^,w:I^p attempted^to, prove, that the phenomena of. Galvanifni, proceeded from a mere chemical operation; this opinion firft arofc from a variety o£. o^^feryations, which h^i had,made oDj^he mutual^ adion w^iich^djffgr^t exert ' .^e nwftal ha$.to, pxydate Yl^^^ \n>. <iont?i^ with another. Tiiat the.fiinple contad ,tvyo 'diffei^nt Mietiils w]ien expofed to a 3uid, produces a particu- lar * See Journal de Chmk-