An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism / With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute, and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London

by Giovanni Aldini

But before I proceed further, I think it necessary to deduce from what has been already said a few general corollaries.

COROLLARY I.

The muscles are affected by the action of the pile in a much more powerful manner when they are laid entirely bare, and when the arc is made to penetrate to a considerable depth in their substance.

COROLLARY II.

These convulsions are increased in proportion to the number of the points of contact between the arc and the muscle.

COROLLARY III.

In many cases, muscular contractions are obtained by forming an arc from one muscle to another.

COROLLARY IV.

Muscular contractions are almost always speedily obtained by the pile, even when the means proposed by Haller fail to produce them.

COROLLARY V.