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i( f eft ed themfehes at Turin, had determined him 
“ to believe, that what happened to his two Ser- 
<( vants was the natural Confcquence of this Eleftriza- 
“ tion : That, with regard to the reft, he propofed 
“ to try the Experiment again upon a lufficient 
<* Number of Pcrfons of another Sort ; and if this 
“ Method of Purging was not conftanr, accord- 
“ ing to the Idea he had had thereof, he would cor- 
“ red, with great Freedom, what he had publifhed 
<e thereupon in his Works, printed in 1748.” 
Thirdly, Mr. Verati aflured me, “ That the ten 
** Cures, related in his Work juft mentioned, were 
a exadly made in the manner they are deferibed 
And they are related with a good deal of Prudence, 
and with a Simplicity which characterizes the Truth. 
The fifth of them was told and certified to me by 
the Perfon himfelf, one Day when I vifited Father 
Trombelli , Abbot of the Houfe in which he lives. 
Thefe Cures are not fuch as give me Difficulty to 
believe them: We fee, at leaft, that they are made 
with Speed : We fee that the Diforder, if I may be 
allowed the Expreffion, defends itfelf againft the 
Remedy, and does not give place but by little and 
little 5 and that Nature makes no fudden Tranfition 
from one State to the other abfolutely different, by the 
means of an Ele&ricity fcarce fenfible. Thefe Cures, 
I fay, give me no Trouble to believe them 5 becaufe 
it appears to me natural enough, and I have faid it 
a great while ago *, that a Fluid, adtive as the eledtric 
Matter, and which pafles into our Bodies with fo 
much 
• In a Difcourfe read to the Royal Academy of Sciences juft after 
Eajler 1746. 
