Description
Scarce and early publication by Matteucci on the torpedo. With his work on the electricity in torpedo’s , M. found that the discharge of the electric organ of the fish were due to impulsus arising in the fourth lobe of the medulla, which he called the electric lobe. In 1842 M. proved, that a current could constantly be detected when electrodes of the galvanometer were placed in contact with intact surface and with the interior (wounded portion) of a muscle.See at Lenght D.S.B. IX p. 176. Clarke and O’Malley p. 186. This is one of the his first works on the subject.
