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The medical application of electricity (1860)

Channing, William F.(William Francis),1820-1901 · Boston : Thomas Hall · leaf 28

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e intensity. Thecurrent of a single galvanic pair, as already stated,though large in quantity, is too inert to pass, to asensible extent, through an indifferent conductor, likethe human body, but it may be made to induce asecondary current, less in quantity, but of anyrequired intensity. 20. The… … double cylinder of cop-per, with a bottom ofthe same metal, whichanswers the purpose ofa galvanic plate, andforms also the containingvessel, for the excitingsolution. There is a mov-able cylinder of zinc, Z,which is to be let down into the solution, wheneverthe battery is to be put in action. It…

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