 On the first application of the process to the face, the jaw of the deceased criminal began to quiver ; and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent part of the process, -the right hand was raised...  An Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy - Page 56by René Just Haüy - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Andrew Knapp, William Baldwin (Attorney at law) - 1825 - 532 pages
...first application of the process to the face, the jaw of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and...process, the right hand was raised and clenched, and the lega and tliighs were set in motion.s Mr. Pass, the beadle of the Surgeoiis' Company, having been officially... | |
 | Robert Thomas - 1828 - 1118 pages
...the first application of galvanism to the face, the jaw of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and...and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion. We are further told, that it appeared to the uninformed part of the by-stand ers, as if the... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1837 - 300 pages
...first application of the process to the face, the jaw of the deceased criminal began to quiver ; and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and...and CLENCHED, and the legs and thighs were set in motion. " It appeared to the uninformed part of the by-standefs, QB And sure I am, he '11 break the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1876 - 510 pages
...muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye actually opened. In the subsequent course of the experiment, the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion ; and it appeared to all the bystanders that the wretched man was on the point of being restored... | |
 | John Ashton - 1886 - 344 pages
...first application of the process to the face, the jaw of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and...hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs set in motion. It appeared to the uninformed part of the bystanders as if the wretched man was on the... | |
 | James Paterson - 1896 - 808 pages
...adjoining muscles also were horribly contorted, and one eye actually opened. As the process went on, the right hand was raised and clenched and the legs and thighs made strange movements. Mr. Pass, the beadle of Surgeons' Hall, havmg been present, became RO alarmed,... | |
 | Hector Alfred Colwell - 1922 - 212 pages
...first application of the process to the face, the jaw of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent parts of the process the right hand was raised and CLENCHED, and the legs and thighs were set in motion.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1805 - 974 pages
...muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye actually opened. In the subsequent course of the experiment, the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion, and it appeared to all (he bye-standcrs that the wretched man was on the point of beiiiiï... | |
 | Mickey S. Eisenberg - 1997 - 326 pages
...first application of the process to the face, the jaw of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent parts of the process the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion.... | |
 | Iwan Rhys Morus - 1998 - 350 pages
...one of his ears and his anus. The result was a startling exhibition of contractions and convulsions: On the first application of the process to the face,...and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion. It appeared to the uninformed part of the by-standers as if the wretched man was on the eve... | |
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