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The Second Experiment. 
The Day after we had made our firft Set of Ex- 
periments I was again electrized fifteen Minutes fuc- 
ceflively, as I had been the Day before, holding in 
my Hand a large Piece of Scammony j and after me 
there went fucceffively through the fame Trial Dr. 
Scherra a Phvfician, Mr. Verne Demonftrator of 
Anatomy, the Marquis of Sine, the Abbe ‘Porta 
a Profeffor in the Univerfity, die Preceptor to the 
Children of the Marquis <r D'Ormea , and the Pre- 
ceptor to the young Mefileurs P)'Oja. This Day the 
Electricity, was indifferently ftrong. 
Of all thefePerfons who were electrized, notone 
felt any Pains in his Belly, no one had any Evacu- 
ation which could be attributed to the electrical 
Power 3 but to fay fcrupuloufly all that came to my 
Knowledge, after feveral Questions, the Preceptor to 
young Mefiieurs D’Ormea declared, thar he had 
parted with more Wind than he had ufually done, 
and he believed allb with more Urine. Thus of 
feven Pcrfons there was but one who fufpeCtcd the 
Operation of Electricity to have had any fenfible 
EffeCt upon him, and this Sufpicion, as we fee, was 
a very flight one. 
The Third Experiment. 
The of May, the Electricity being more 
ftrong than the preceding Days, we chofe a Piece of 
new * Scammony, very ftrong in its Flavour, and 
which 
* M. Biamki fufpeefted, that the Drugs we had made ufe ol in 
our firft Experiments had left their moft fubcile Parrs, only capable, 
as he laid, of being introduced with the eledtric Matter. 
