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render a living Body replete with electrical Effluvia, 
or to tranfmit and fend fuch Effluvia through a 
living Body, in a Stream, as long as we think pro- 
per : We are not fure that it is impoflible for thefe 
Effluvia to convey with them into that living Body 
the mod fubtile and adive Effluvia of other Sub- 
ftances } and if they can do lb, the EfFeds fuggefted 
are not wholly improbable; for feveral Experiments 
have proved, that a very minute Quantity of Me- 
dicine, transfufed diredly into the Blood, and circu- 
lating Fluids, will have the fame Effed as a large 
Dofe thereof taken into the Stomach. Therefore 
even this laft Cafe, romantic as it may feem, fhould 
not be abfolutely condemned without a fair Tryal ; 
lince we all, I believe, remember the Time, when 
thofe Bhtenomena in Eledricity, which are now the 
mod common and familiar to us, would have been 
thought deferving as little Credit, as the Cafe under 
Confideration may feem to do, had Accounts of 
them been fentus from Rome , Venice , or Bologna , 
and had wenever experienced them ourfelves. 
I am proud to feize every Occafion to alfure you 
with what great RefpedT am, 
SIR, 
Strand, March 28, .Tour moft faithful and 
obedient humble Servant , 
Henry Baker,- 
