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During the operation he felt a great heat in his feet 
and legs, and a confiderable quantity of the gum, 
which the heat had foftened, fluck to the foies of 
his feet ; but this perfon felt no difturbance in his 
flomach or bowels, and had but one Aool in the 
fubfequent four-and-twenty hours. So that, from 
all thefe fubftances applied to the fkin, no effects 
could be attributed to the electrisation. 
In the third clals of experiments the phial was em- 
ployed, as in making the experiment of Leyden, and 
was Arid filled with camphorated fpirit of wine. 
The fhock from this was but feeble ; whence it was 
judged, that fpirit of wine was not capable of receiv- 
ing any conliderable degree of electricity *. The 
phial therefore was emptied of this liquor, and filled 
with clear water, with which was mixed half a drachm 
of flowers of Benjamin, and the mouth was clofed as 
before. In making the experiment of Leyden, the 
ftroke then was very fevere to the obferver, who - 
drew the fnap by accident from the wire of the 
phial. There was no one of the company, who was 
not defirous of bringing his nofe near the electrifed 
glafs, in hopes of perceiving the fmell of the Benja- 
min. Some of the company flood upon the refin, and 
holding their hands either upon the iron bar or the 
phial, caufed themfelves to be electrifed twenty or 
thirty minutes ; but no one could perceive the leaf! 
fmell of the Benjamin, not even in the hand, that 
touched the phial. 
They 
* The author of this account has confuler’d this matter in a pa- 
per communicated to the Royal Society fome time fince. Sec 
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