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"'Piedmont, notwithstanding my Attention to eat 
fparingly of them, had oftentimes difturbcd my 
Digefiion, during my Stay there, and at times when 
I had no Concern in electrical Experiments. Befidcs, 
the not being incommoded for three Days, and 
more, was fufficient to prevent my attributing what 
happened to me to the eledtrical Power. 
The extreme Circumfpection, with which I was 
defirous of choofing the Perfons for ail our Experi- 
ments; the Difficulty of procuring and moving fuch 
Pick People, who were in a Condition and Difpofition 
to leave nothing to be feared on their Parrs from 
their Prejudice, and their heated Imagination ; that 
of reconciling my Time with that, which a Phy- 
feian of great Practice could grant me ; thefe 
Obftacles, I fay, prevented my attempting with M. 
Bianchi fuch Cures, as he believed to have been 
brought about by means of the eleclric Virtue, either 
by its own Adlion, or by joining thereto Medicines 
appropriated to the Condition of the Sick, and con- 
tained in Glafs Veffels electrized by Eridlion. But 
I teftified a great Defire of feeing thofe Perfons who 
had been cured, or confiderably relieved, by this 
Method before this time. I asked, for this Purpofe, 
the Gentlemen of the Profeffion, who had been 
Witneffes of the Experiments, and who were yet in 
a Condition of feeing every Day fome of the Per- 
fons, cited in a Manufcript which I had of M. 
Bianchi s; and of whom the cxa& Hiftoiy is men- 
tioned in the ninth Chapter of a Treatife of M. 
Pivati * : I went myfelf to the Shoemaker, in 
whole 
* Reffleffiom fijiche fop- a la Meduina elettrica , p. 149. 
