RESEMBLANCE of the FLUID put in MOTION by the foregoing EXPERIMENTS to the ELECTRICAL FLUID.
The Fluid set in motion by the application of the Metals to each other, and to Animal Bodies or to Water, agrees with or resembles the Electrical Fluid in the following respects.
Like the Electrical Fluid, it communicates the sense of pungency to the Tongue.
Like the Electrical Fluid, it is conveyed readily by Water, Blood, the Bodies of Animals, the Metals; and is arrested in its course by Glass, Sealing-Wax, &c.
It passes, with similar rapidity, through the Bodies of Animals.
Like the Electrical Fluid, it excites the activity of the Vessels of a living Animal, as the Pain it gives and Hemorrhagy it produces seem to prove. Hence perhaps it might be employed with advantage in Amenorrhœa.
It excites Convulsions of the Muscles in the same manner, and with the same effects as Electricity.
When the Metals and Animal are kept steadily in contact with each other, the Convulsions cease, or an Equilibrium seems to be produced, as after discharging a Leyden Phial.