"Galvanism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... turns. These changes were effected in such a manner that clouds, varying in tint between a hyacinth red and a chestnut-brown, were continually passing over the body. (1/4. So named according to Patrick Symes's nomenclature.) Any part, being subjected to a slight shock of galvanism, became almost black: a similar effect, but in a less degree, was produced by scratching the skin with a needle. These clouds, or blushes as they may be called, are said to be produced by the alternate expansion and contraction of minute vesicles containing ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin
... enumerated. How, then, is this brought to the test? By experiments, not on lightning, which can not be commanded at pleasure, but on the same natural agency in a manageable form, that of artificial galvanism. Dr. Brown-Sequard galvanized the entire bodies of animals immediately after death. Galvanism can not operate in any of the modes in which the stroke of lightning may have operated, except the single one of producing muscular ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
... if by galvanism, and ran out of the room, spinning round as he ran, to declare, again and again, that he would not ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book III • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... hartshorn, and a warm injection of turpentine, made as follows, may be thrown up—oil of turpentine, 3 drachms; gruel, 1/2 a pint; and the yolk of 1 egg. Incorporate the turpentine with the egg, then add the gruel. Galvanism should be resorted to, if respiration is not quickly restored. As soon as the patient can swallow, he should have some weak wine and water; and soon afterwards an emetic of a large tablespoonful of mustard, mixed with 6 ozs. of water, to clear the stomach of ...
— Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets • Daniel Young
... crudest original thing than the mere galvanism of the corpse of a dead genius. I would give a thousand paintings by Froment, Damousse, or any of the finest living artists of Sevres, for one piece by old Van der Meer of Delft; but I would prefer ...
— Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida - Selected from the Works of Ouida • Ouida
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