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by being eleftrized for a few Hours, and often a 
lefs Time was fufficienr. Sometimes the rubbing a 
Glafs Tube only, or at other times a Glafs Tube 
lined with fome Medicine appropriated to the Difeafe 
of the Patient, was employed. Thcfe Medicines, 
to exert their Operation upon the Patient, pafled 
thro' the Glafs ; and this they were very certain of, 
as they faw them fenfibly diminifh in their Quantity, 
although the Glafs containing them was hopped as 
clofe as though feaied hermetically. To promote 
Stools, it is only neceflary that a Perfon fhould be 
elettrized for fix or eight Minutes, holding in his 
Hand a Piece of Scammony or Gamboge ; the Ef- 
fects were as certain, as though thefe Drugs were 
taken internally. Eefides, if a Perfon was defirous 
of being perfumed from Head to Foot, nothing 
more was neceflary than being cleftrized with a Glafs 
Vdl'el lined with Balfam of ‘Tern, Benjamin , or fome 
fuch Drug; and from this Electrization the Odours 
were perceptible for two or three Days, even fo much 
as to incommode thofe to whom thefe Smells were 
difagreeable. 
Effects no lefs wonderful than thefe were publifhed 
every Day, by Writings printed, and printed again *, 
or 
* The firft of thefe Works is a Letter of M. Pivati , an Advocate 
at Venice. Ic was firft printed at Lucca in 1747. and fome time after 
reprinted at Venice , always with the fame Tide, Della Elettiicita y 
Lettra del chiarifjimo Signor Francifco Pivati-, See. This Letter was 
tranflated into French , and printed at Paris. In 1748. there appeared 
another Treatife, printed at Bologna, intituled, Observations fijico-v se- 
diche intorno alia Elefiricita, da Gio.Giufeppe Vcrati publ. profejf. nella 
univerjita e nella Academia delle Scienze del i'ujlituto academico Be- 
nedettino. In the fame Year 1748. there was primed at Verona a 
little 
