...pluced in I contact with the spinal cord, and the other applied to the sciatic nerve Every muscle in the body was immediately agitated with convulsive...each renewal of the electric contact. On moving the pole from the hip to the ' heel (the knee being previously bent), the leg was thrown out with such...

...was connected to the spinal marrow and the other to the sciatic nerve, for example, "every muscle in the body was immediately agitated with convulsive...movements, resembling a violent shuddering from cold." When the phrenic nerve was exposed and the battery connected between it and the diaphragm, after various...

...in one of the heels. When the electrodes were inserted into the incisions the effect was startling. 'Every muscle of the body was immediately agitated...movements resembling a violent shuddering from cold,' Ure writes. 'The left side was most powerfully convulsed at each renewal of the electric contact. On...