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Kentucky Gazette And General Advertiser
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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Dr. Nauche in Paris discovered that galvanism enables blind individuals to perceive luminous flashes via voltaic pile application to extremities and face, and repeated applications cause agitation, reveries, tears, increased secretions, and enhanced perspiration in affected areas.
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"It has been found by Dr. Nauche, at Paris, that a person perfectly blind may be made to perceive very lively and luminous flashes of light, by bringing one extremity of the voltaic pile into communication with the hand or foot, and the other with the face, skin of the head and even the neck.—That reiterated applications of Galvanism, when they comprehend the half trunk, produce in the person subjected to them, great agitation, many reveries, involuntary tears, increased secretion of the saliva, an acid or alkaline taste, a great excretion of the urine, and increase of heat and transpiration, and of perspiration in the galvanized parts. That the action of the Galvanic fluid may be increased by drawing it off by a sharp point."
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blind persons perceive lively luminous flashes; reiterated applications cause great agitation, reveries, involuntary tears, increased saliva secretion, acid or alkaline taste, great urine excretion, increased heat, transpiration, and perspiration in galvanized parts; action increased by sharp point.
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Dr. Nauche found that a blind person can perceive lively luminous flashes by connecting one end of the voltaic pile to the hand or foot and the other to the face, head skin, or neck. Reiterated galvanism applications to half the trunk produce agitation, reveries, tears, increased saliva, taste changes, urine excretion, heat, transpiration, and perspiration. Galvanic fluid action increases when drawn off by a sharp point.