 | Homeopathy - 1862 - 764 pages
...were exhibited; and "fifty shocks, each greater than the preceding one, were given in two seconds. Every muscle of the countenance was simultaneously...their hideous expression in the murderer's face." Some of the spectators were driven in terror from the apartment, and one gentleman fainted. In another... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - Physics - 1871 - 478 pages
...remarkable effects of voltaic electricity ? Describe the experiment! the assistants, who tried in vain to prevent its extension. On directing a current to...convulsive movement of the whole arm, seemed to point to the persons present, some of whom thought that the body had really returned to life. Thermo-electricity... | |
 | William Boggett - 1881 - 52 pages
...belly protruded and collapsed, every muscle was thrown into fearful action ; rage, horror, despair and anguish, and ghastly smiles, united their hideous expression in the murderer's face. At this period several spectators were obliged to leave the room from terror or sickness, and one gentleman... | |
 | Iwan Rhys Morus - Electricity - 1998 - 350 pages
...discharges passed between it and the heel, extraordinary effects were produced: every muscle in his countenance was simultaneously thrown into fearful...united their hideous expression in the murderer's face, surpassing far the wildest representations of a Fuseli or a Kean. At this period several of the spectators... | |
 | Susan E. Lederer - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 94 pages
...executed murderer in Glasgow in November 1818, he recorded the dramatic effect: Every muscle in his countenance was simultaneously thrown into fearful...united their hideous expression in the murderer's face, surpassing far the wildest representations of a Fuseli or a Kean.29 During this time of electrical... | |
 | George Rosie - History - 2006 - 268 pages
...was pushed into the incision on the heel. Yet again, the effect was dramatic. 'Every muscle in his countenance was simultaneously thrown into fearful...united their hideous expression in the murderer's face, surpassing far the wildest [actorly] representations of a Fuseli or a Kean. At this period several... | |
 | Physics - 1819 - 502 pages
...fifty shocks, each greater than the preceding one, were given in two seconds : every muscle in his countenance was simultaneously thrown into fearful...united their hideous expression in the murderer's face, surpassing far the wildest representations of a Fju's^lfc-ot'ja'lffean. ^t this period several of the... | |
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... every muscle in his countenance was simultaneously thrown into fearful action ; rage, horror, despair, anguish, and ghastly smiles, united their hideous expression in the murderer's face, surpassing far the wildest representations of a Fuseli or a... 
