So when, sooner than she had expected, she caught the sound of the first breath of indisputable sleep, she rose and slipped away quietly, and as she lay down again to rest again asked herself the question: Was it the galvanism that had done it?
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
The black specks are buoys, called circuit-closers, because they contain a delicate contrivance-a compound of mechanism and galvanism-which, when the buoys are bumped, close the electric circuit and cause the mine to explode.
"In the Track of the Troops"
R.M. Ballantyne
In the first place, guided by what we know of the relative effects of galvanism and induced electricity, we must decide which of these two currents to use, and if both, in which order.
"The Electric Bath"
George M. Schweig