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An Examination of certain Phenomena in Elec- 
tricity, publifhed in Italy, by the Abbe Nollet, 
Fellow of the Royal Society , of the Royal Aca- 
demy of Sciences at Paris, and. of the Academy 
del Inftituto at Bologna, co?nmunicated to the 
Royal Society by his Grace Charles c Duke of Rich- 
mond, &c. F. R. S. Tranjlated from the French 
by W. Watfon, F. R. S. 
E Leclricity, after having excited every-vvhere the 
Emulation of the Ingenious, after having filled 
us with Wonder by an infinite Number of Pheno- 
mena more lingular and more admirable one than 
another, feems, within thefe few Years, to have 
fhewn itfelf equally furpriling, but more ufeful, in 
Italy, than it had done in England, France Germany , 
&c. where, for thefe twenty or five-and-twenty 
Years, fo great aProgrefs had been made. We have 
heard of nothing Ids than the Cure, or the almoft 
fudden Relief, of Diftempers of every Kind, and of 
purging all Sorts of Perfons in a manner of all 
others the mod proper to avoid the Repugnance and 
Difguft we naturally have to medical Potions. 
Even thac Difeafe which we arc mod defirous of 
concealing, was not by thefe means without its 
Remedy ; the Mercury being volatilized, and carried, 
by the eleflric Matter, into the Body of the Patient, 
tinged his Skin of a leaden Colour, and procured 
him a certain Cure by a copious Salivation. 
The Manner in which this was done was not 
lefs to be wondered at than the thing itfelf ; Per- 
fons affli&ed with inveterate Gouts, Rheumatifms, 
Fiuxions, Tumours, &c. were relieved therefrom 
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