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" I do not remember having ever received from the discharge of a large Leyden jar, a more dreadful shock than that which I experienced by imprudently placing both my feet on a gymnotus just taken out of the water. I was affected the rest of the day with... "
The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 243
1820
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 21

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...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...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 21

1819 - 596 pages
...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...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 2

1820 - 468 pages
...assured us, that when the horses are made to run two day* UHCcesaivcly into the name pool, none arc killed the second day. covered with a mucous matter,...with a violent pain in the knees, and in almost every jomt. To be aware of the difference, which is sufficiently striking, that exists between the sensation...
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The North American Review, Volume 56

1843 - 706 pages
...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...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 2

1820 - 486 pages
...fish, yet discovered * in the different parts of the world, is covered with scales. .j., .fi-ci.o :>.,. It would be temerity to expose ourselves to the first...in a state of extreme •weakness. The gymnoti and die torpedoes then cause a twitching, which is propagated from the part that rests on the electric...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 6

1857 - 412 pages
...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...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 10

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...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,...
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The Modern Traveller: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and ..., Volume 8

Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 pages
...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...
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The Christian's Penny Magazine, Issues 1-82

1832 - 670 pages
...shock, than that which I experienced by imprudently placing both my feet on a gymnotus just taken out the water. I was affected the rest of the day with...violent pain in the knees, and in almost every .joint. " Gymnoti are neither charged conductors, nor batteries, nor electro-motive apparatuses, the shock...
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The Saturday Magazine ..., Volumes 4-5

1834 - 536 pages
...more dreadful shock, than that which I experienced by imprudently placing both my feet on a Gymnotxis just taken out of the water. I was affected the rest;...violent pain in the knees, and in almost every joint. Périmai Narrative.'] LONDON : JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, WEST STRAND. PUBLISHED in WEEKLY Nun««. РЯЮЕ...
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