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The Philofophcrs in Italy and Germany have ap- 
plied their Induftry to difcover by Experiment, how 
far Electricity may, ftmpiy and in itfelf, be of Ser- 
vice in feveral Difeafes, and likewife how far it may 
conduce towards conveying the more fubtile and ac- 
tive Effluvia of ufeful Medicines, either into the whole 
Body, or into fome diftempered Part. Mr. JVatfon 
read, laft Thurfday , before the Royal Society , an 
AbftraCt of the preceding Paper, fent to Dr. Morti- 
mer from Leipjic , by Profeflbr IVinckler , of feveral 
Experiments to this Purpofe, made at Venice by M. 
! Rivati , and repeated afterwards by himfelf at Leip- 
fic with the fame Succefs. He gives Inftances of fa- 
turating, by Electrification, with the Effluvia of 
Balfam of : Rent , and of Sulphur, fo as to produce 
very remarkable EffeCts ; and of taking a Fit of the 
Gout away intirely, by conveying into the Part af- 
flicted the fanative Effluvia of warm and difeutient 
Drugs. 
My ingenious Friend Dr. j Ufeph Bruni , one of 
the principal Phyficians at Turin , and Fellow of 
our Royal Society , has likewife fent to me an Ac- 
count, lately received by him, of Experiments made 
at Rome , and at Bologna ; which I now, Sir, lay 
before you, in order to fhew what Attempts to the 
fame Purpofe have been made in different Countries, 
and by different People. The DoCtor informs 
me, that at Turin they have repeated, with great 
Succefs, the electrical Experiments made in Eng - 
land , whereof I had fent him printed Accounts; 
that People all over Italy are bufily at Work ma- 
king eleCtrical Experiments ; and that, at Bologna , 
the electrical Power has been applied to the Cure 
