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great evaporation of eleftrified liquids, and for the greater 

 perfpiration of animals and vegetables which have been elec- 

 trified. It is then evident, that whenever a ftagnation of the 

 fluids takes place, if other fymptoms do not oppofe it, elec- 

 tricity will be a good remedy : on the other hand, if the dif- 

 eafe arifcs from vitiated fluids, or a virus diluted in them, 

 eleclricity in this cafe, either by the evaporation of the di- 

 luting; Ouid, or by the greater alteration it may produce, will 

 be hurtful. From what has been faid, it is evident that elec- 

 tricity and Galvanifm ought to be employed with the greateft 

 circutiifpeftion, and that the nature of the difeafe ought to be 

 compared with the nature and properties of thtfe fluids, to 

 afcertain whether the application of them is proper or not. 

 It is to be obferved alfo, that this remedy, in confequence of 

 its aftivitv, may be dangerous, like all other remedies, how- 

 ever good, if abufed. 



" I could adduce feveral inftances of misfortunes occafioned 

 by the abufe of eleftrization, even in cafes in which a little 

 time before it had be^n indicated ; but I ihall mention only 

 one fa6t in reaard to Galvanifm : — A young woman was cured 

 bv Galvanifm of pains which the experienced in the mufcles 

 oftheflice. After the cure, having continued to Galvanize 

 herfelf, ihe did hurt, which incrcafed with the application of 

 the Galvanifm, and did not ceafc till (lie abandoned herfelf 

 entirely to the powers of nature, aflilied by good nourith- 

 nient. The patient then, who is incapable ot forming a pro- 

 per opinion refpefting the (late of his health, fliould confult 

 a good pbyfician, one of thofe who do not defpife natural 

 philofophy and the new difcoveries, in order that he may 

 never fufler by the application of electricity or of Galvanifm, 

 which, as Boerhaave fays of another very aftive remedy, 

 Mira pra-Jlat in multis incurabilibus ; at prudenier a pru- 

 denti medico ahjline Ji metbodum ncjcis * . 



LVJII. Account of fome Remains of a Species of gigantic 

 Oxen fund in America and other Parts of the IVorld. By 

 Mr. UeMBUANDT pKALEf. 



-TxMONG the remains of gigantic and unknown animals 

 found in America, we have lately difcovcred one of the ox or 

 buflalo kind, wliich was taken from the bed of a creek fall- 

 ing into the Ohio, 12 or 14 miles north of Bigbonc-lick, and 

 prclcnttd by Samuel Brown, of Kentucky, to the Philoio- 



* Eltm. Clicnii.K, pars iii. proccfTus 198. 

 t Communicated )>v tl'.c Author. 



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