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made juft in the fame manner as thofe of the academy 
del Cimento , the value of which every one prefent, I 
prefume, is not now to be apprized of. 
The truth of this publication is not to be fufpected; 
it comes from the very place, where medical elec- 
tricity took its rife ; and is not the production of one 
perl'on, who might be fufpected too ftightly to have 
admitted what might tend to favour his own opi- 
nions. Thefe are facts confider’d in themfelves in- 
dependently of all application, decifions of the unani- 
mous voice of a number of very fenlible men, and 
in the face of a great number of witneffes, many of 
them prejudiced to the contrary, and but here forced 
to be convinced by the evidence of facts. 
The gentlemen concerned in conducting thefe ex- 
periments divided them into three claffes. The firft 
clafs contains a feries of experiments made with tubes 
and globes containing odoriferous or other fubftances, 
in order to obferve, when thefe were clolely flopped, 
whether the odorous, as well as other effects of the 
fubftances included, would pervade the glafs. The 
fecond clafs includes experiments made with tubes 
and globes, which have nothing within them ; but 
the perfons electrifed hold in their hands, or fome- 
times place under their naked feet, odoriferous, 
purging, or even the moft poifonous fubftances, in 
order to obferve, whether the perfons electrifed in 
this manner would be fenlible of the effects of thefe 
fubftance c . The third clafs gives us a feries of expe- 
riments different from the two former, in which the 
fubftances bcfore-mention’d are mixed with the wa- 
ter, as in making the experiment of Leyden. From 
thefe experiments we are to difeover, whether from 
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