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Galvanism, or Voltaic Electricity

"To play with fire They say is dangerous; what is it then To shake hands with the lightning, and to sport With thunder?"--TYLER.

GALVANISM, or electricity of quantity, in contradistinction to frictional electricity, called electricity of intensity, owes its name to the experiments on animal irritability made in 1790 by M. Galvani, a professor of anatomy at Bologna. These experiments were suggested by the following circumstances.