...organ, and those of the muscles, all require the afflux and concourse of arterial or oxygenated blood. It would be temerity to expose ourselves to the first...are in a state of extreme weakness. The gymnoti and the torpedoes then cause a twitching *, which is propagated from the part that rests on the electric...

...expose ourselves to the first shocks of a very large and strongly irritated gyranotns. If by chance yon receive a stroke before the fish is wounded, or wearied...are in a state of extreme weakness. The gymnoti and the torpedoes then cause a twitching *, which is propagated from the part that rests on the electric...

...received so dreadful a shock by imprudently placing his feet on one just taken out of the water, that he was affected the rest of the day with a violent pain in the knees, and in almost every joint. He adds, that the electric action of the fish depends entirely on its will, and that it has the power...

...received so dreadful a shock by imprudently placing his feet on one just taken out of the water, that he was affected the rest of the day with a violent pain in the knees, and in almost every joint. He adds, that the electric action of the fish depends entirely on its will, and that it has the power...

...that no electrical fish, yet discovered * in the different parts of the world, is covered with scales. It would be temerity to expose ourselves to the first...are in a state of extreme weakness. The gymnoti and the torpedoes then cause a twitching, which is propagated from the part that rests on the electric...

...experienced by placing both my feet on a Gymnotus just taken from the water. I was affected through the day with a violent pain in the knees, and in almost every joint." The sensation produced by the shock of the Gymnotus is like that of the Leyden jar, while that of the...

...organ, and those of the muscles, all require the afflux and concourse oi" arterial or oxygenated blood. It would be temerity to expose ourselves to the first...are in a state of extreme weakness. The gymnoti and the torpedoes then cause a twitching *, which is propagated from the part that rests on the electric...

...by imprudently placing both my feet on a gymnotus just taken out of the water. I was affected during the rest of the day with a violent pain in the knees...almost every joint. To be aware of the difference that exists between the sensation produced by the voltaic battery and an electric fish, the latter...

...do not remember having ever received from the discharge of a Leyden jar a more dreadful shock thin that which I experienced by imprudently placing both...violent pain in the knees, and in almost every joint. ' When Mr. Bonpland held it by the head, or by the middle of the body, while 1 held it by the tail,...

...the feeling they excite. I do not remember having ever received from the discharge of a large Leydcn jar, a more dreadful shock than that which I experienced...violent pain in the knees, and in almost every joint. " Gymnoti are neither charged conductors, nor batteries, nor electro-motive apparatuses, the shock...