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Pivati matrbnam fexagcnariam fimili modo libera- 
vit arthritide, qua fex menfes vexata fuerat. In magno 
tutaore fuerunt digiti continuo trementes, et bra- 
chium unum convulfionibus agitatum eft. Sed poft 
duo minuta prima, quam vires elecfricitatis experta 
erat, tremor digitorum defiit. Poftero die tumor 
ita decrevir, ut chirothecas induere, et officio ma- 
nuum fungi potuerit matrona. 
Hxc adeo clara funt, ut nullus videatur locus du* 
bitandi de auxilio, quod medicinam fibi ex elc&rici- 
tate comparare pofte cenfeo. Qua in fententia ani- 
mum meum confirmat fuffragium, quo judicii ple- 
nus et in re medica verfatiffimus Morgagni , in 
academia Ratavina anatomise profeftor, explicatum 
ftbi a Rivati negotium egregie comprobavit, eum- 
que, fubminiftratis confiliis, impenfe cohortatus eft 
ad rem medicinae accommodatam generique humano 
fru&uofiffimam novis fubinde laboribusperficiendam. 
XIX. A Letter from Mr. Henry Baker 
j P. R.S, to the President, concerning fever al 
Medical Experiments of Electricity. 
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SIR , 
} 
Read March 13. 1 r TT^'HO UGH perhaps as many curious 
1748. anc j wc i [-contrived Experiments 
have been made in England as in all the other 
Parts of Europe , to difeover the general Laws and 
Properties of Electricity ; we have not hitherto at- 
tended to the Effects that may be thereby produced 
in the Bodies of living Animals, any further than 
to 
