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and commotion produce the fame effedt, though in a 
more powerful manner, as warm fulphureous baths, 
frictions, finapifms, flinging with nettles, &c. gene- 
rally made ufe of in the cure of this diftemper. This 
reafoning does very well in theory ; but I fhould 
have been glad to have feen it juftified by practice, 
and his own obfervations. But inftead of thefe, our 
author contents himfelf with giving us over again the 
lying ftories of Pivati : to which he has added the 
four cafes publifhed fome time fince, and tranfmitted 
to the Royal Society, as well as to myfelf, by Pro- 
feffor Sauvages, of Montpellier. Thefe cafes indeed 
do credit to electricity, but we want more of them. 
Our author Anifhes this differtation, by deducing 
feveral conclufions from what he has premifed, and 
thefe are as follow. 
I. That electricity may he advantageoufly applied to 
medicinal purpofes. 
II. That it augments the natural tranfpiration of 
animals. 
III. That this acceleration of tranfpiration in men 
is through the exhaling capillary veffels, and not 
through the fubcutaneous glands. 
IV. That the nervous fluid may be called the elec- 
trical fluid. 
V. That the nerves fubfervient to fenfation are not 
different from thofe fubfervient to motion. 
VI. That the immediate caufe of the hemiplegia is 
the immeability of the nervous fluid through the 
nerves. 
VII. That of all other diftempers the hemiplegia feems 
xnoft properly the object of electricity. 
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