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receiving the diocks from thefe bottles, the perlbn 
fendble of the effects in his body of the lubdances 
contained in them. 
I lhould be carried very far, were I to be too par- 
ticular in my accounts of thefe experiments : I fhall 
content myfelf therefore in mentioning to you the 
bodies employed, and the refult therefrom. 
Thefe gentlemen tried fulphur powdered, cam- 
phor, mmk, of all known bodies the mod re- 
markable for its lubtilty, volatile fal armoniac, a mix- 
ture of turpentine and dorax, powder of Benjamin. 
Thefe odoriferous fubdances were all feverally put to 
trial in glades clofely Topped, and electrifed a rea- 
fonable time. After the experiment, there appeared 
neither in the fkin of the perfons eledtrifed, nor in 
the matter they perfpired, in their beds, nor about 
their cloaths, any odours of the fub fiances contained, 
fufficient to impofe upon the mod: credulous perfons. 
They next tried in the fame manner, whether the 
u dial effedfs of medicines would be obvious in the 
perfons cledtrifed ; and for this purpofe quickliLver, 
gamboge in powder, and liver of antimony, were 
employed ; but, contrary to what had been before 
publidied, not the lead of their effects were obferv- 
able. With a like event they tried opium, corrofive 
lublimate, and cantharides. 
The next feries of experiments were made by 
the perfon electrifed holding the drugs, &c. in his 
hand. The fubjects employed here were aloes, 
fcammony, gamboge, opium, and corrofive fubli- 
mate. In one of thefe experiments, a boy of ele- 
ven years were electrifed with his naked feet 
danding 
