The earliest experimental convulsions by Joseph Priestley in 1766 friendship with Benjamin Franklin

摘要

In 1766, Joseph Priestley ( 1733-1804) was the first to systematically demonstrate the universal convulsive effect of an electrical discharge applied to the head of all the several species studied. We here republish his overlooked experiments, which often resulted in death, and which ante date the scientific studies of the electrical functions of the brain, the role of "discharges" in seizures, and experimental epilepsy by about a century.