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or by particular Letters and Memoirs in Manufcript 
addreflcd ro the Ingenious .all over Europe. They 
were alio confirmed by refpe&able Wirnefles, and by 
Inch as were capable of impofing them upon Pcrfons 
the mod; guarded againft the Exaggerations, which 
never fail accompanying the Relations of interefting 
Novelties. 
The Importance of the Faffs themfelves, and the 
Appearance of Authenticity which attended them, 
demanded that they fhould be confidered ; and indeed 
they roufed every* where the Attention of thofePhilo- 
fophers, who had for any time turned their Thoughts 
to rhefe Enquiries. Every one of them was dcllrous 
of repeating what Mr. Pivati faid had been done 
at Venice , Mr. Verati at Bologna , and Mr. Bianchi 
at Turin } and to begin them, as the Experiment 
ieemed more fimple, they attempted at firft theTranf- 
mifllon of odoriferous Subftanccs through the Pores 
of the Glafs, the firft Foundation of Intonacatores f, 
fo called by Mr. Pivati ; and which we fhall, in the 
Progrefs of this Paper, call medicated Glafles ; and 
they 
little Treadfe concerning medical Eledbicity, intituled, Lettra del 
Si galore Canonico Brigoli Jopra !a Machina Elettrica. Afterwards, in 
1749. there was publilhed at Venice a new Treatife, conliderably 
larger than the firft, in which we find not only the Author’s own 
Experiments, but alfo thofe of Mr. Biancbi of Turin, and of 
fome other Perfons who had taken Pains with this View. This la ft 
Work is intituled, Reflefftoni fijice fopra la Me die in a Elettrica. It is 
principally in this Volume that the Facts of which we are now treat- 
ing are mentioned. 
f Mr. Pivati has given this Name to the manner in which he 
prepares hollow Cylinders of Glafs in filling them, or lining them, 
with fome Drug, the Virtue of which, he pretends, will tranfude 
with the eledtric Matter. 
