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draw the ftrokes, efpecially in making the experi- 
ment of Leyden, from the eyes, or even from the 
parts near them. 
Some time fince it was" imagined, that deafnefs had 
been relieved by eledtrifing the patient, by drawing 
the fnaps from the ears, and by making him undergo 
the eledtrical commotion in the fame manner. If 
hereafter this remedy fhould be fantastically applied 
to the eyes in this manner to reftore dimnefs of light, 
I fhould not wonder, if perfedt blindnefs were the 
confequence of the experiment. 
By a very ingenious experiment our author endea- 
vours to evince the impoffibility of fuccefs, in the ex- 
periments propofed by others of drawing forth the 
effluvia of non-eledtrics, cinamon, for inftance, and 
by mixing them with the eledtrical fluid, to convev 
them with that into a perfon eledtrified : and our au- 
thor thinks, that tho’ the effluvia of cinamon and 
the eledtrical fluid fhould mix within the globe, they 
would never come out together through the pores of 
the glafs, and thus be conveyed to the prime con- 
dudtor 5 for he thinks, that the eledtrical fluid itfelf 
cannot come through, and that the prime condudtor 
is always fupplied from the cufhion, and tills laft 
from the floor. Befides, when the globe is filled 
with cinamon, or other non-eledtrics, no eledtricity 
can be obtained from its outer Surface, for the rea- 
fons before laid down. He has tried another way, 
which he thought more likely to obtain a mixture of 
the eledtrical and other effluvia together, if fuch a 
mixture had been poffible. He placed a glafs plate 
under his cufhion, to cut off the communication be- 
tween the cufhion and the floor: he then brought a 
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