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LXV. An Account of Dr. BianchiniV Re~ 
cueil d’experiences faites a Venife fur le 
medicine ele&rique \ by Mr. William 
Watfon, F. R. S. 
To the Royal Society. 
Gentlemen, 
Read March 12, y* BOUT the clofe of laft fummer, 
1752 1~\ our worthy member the Abbe Nol- 
let of Paris tranfmitted, as a prefent to the Society, a 
treatife, intituled, Recueil d’ experiences faites a Ve - 
nife fur la medicine eledlrique, -par quelques amateurs 
de phyfque , publie par M. J. Fortunat Bianchini , 
docleur et profefeur en medicine , et traduit de l' It alien 
pour J'ervir de corredlij a la lettre fur ! eledlri cite me- 
dicate. This treatife, from the misfortune which we 
labour under from the prefent bad ftate of health of our 
excellent prefident, to whom it was fent, has not as 
yet been prefented in form to the Society ; but as 
you have already much interefted yourfelves in invef- 
tigating the truth of the facts, which occafioned this 
publication, I take the liberty, from a copy thereof 
lent me at the fame time by my kind friend and cor- 
refpondent the Abbe Nollet, to lay before you a fhort 
account thereof. This indeed may be now thought 
lefs necefiary, as, fince the Abbe’s journey to Italy, 
and our want of fuccefs here in our attempts to do 
the like, every body has confider’d what the Italians 
printed upon the tranfmilTion of odours thro’ the 
pores of glafs, and upon the fubject of medical 
electricity. 
