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led me to the Experiments, and made me even 
forefee their Succcfs . 
I am not only fatisfied of the Exiftence of an ef- 
fluent electric Matter, which all the World allows, 
and which fhews itfelf a thouland Ways* bat many 
convincing Reafons have alfo allured me, that there 
is, round every electrified Body, an affluent Matter, 
which comes to it not only from the ambient Air, 
but likewife from all the other Bodies, whether fo- 
lid or fluid, that are round about, and within a 
certain Diftance of it. If thefe furrounding Bodies 
are of a fimple Nature, as a Stone, a Piece of Iron, 
ire. nothing illues from them but pure electrical 
Matter: But if they are Animals, Plants, or Fruits, 
or, in a Word, any organized Bodies, or fuch, in 
the Pores of which there is any Subltance capable of 
giving way to the Impulfes of the cleClric Matter 3 
this Matter will, in iffuing forth with the great Ra- 
pidity, which it is known to have, carry along with 
it whatever it finds moveable enough to be difplaced 
by it j and by fo much will the Weight of the Body 
be diminifhed 5 the fame EffeCt being here produced 
by the affluent Matter, as is produced on electrified 
Bodies by the effluent. If you will plcale to read 
over my EBay, what l advance will be better undcr- 
ftood. ' The Increafe or Diminution of Pcrfpiration is 
not a Matter of Indifference to the animal Oeconomy : 
This new Method of increafing it at Will may pofiibly 
prove ofUfe; it is neither inconvenient nor danger- 
ous ; and neither I myfelf, nor any body elfc of thole, 
on whom I made my Experiments, Buffered even the 
lead Inconveniency from ir. One feels neither Mo- 
tion nor Heat differing from that of the natural 
State. 
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