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much Eafc, may produce therein, in time. Altera- 
tions either * falutary or pernicious. 
I learned nothing in the other Cities of Italy y 
which did not ftrengthen my Doubts in relation to 
thofe eleftrical Phxnomena, which I had a Defire to 
verify in the Courfe of my Travels. Perc La Torre , 
Profeflor of Philofopby at Naples ; M. T) 2 la Garde , 
Dirc&or of the Coinage at Ilorence, one who has 
been much engaged in thefe Inquiries 5 M. Gua- 
dagni , Profeflor of experimental Ph iofophy at Pifa ; 
the Marquis Maffei , at Verona ; Dr. Cornelto , at 
Placentia Per c Garo, at Turing all ihete, I fay, 
with very excellent and w ll-contrived Machines, 
and with a great Df fire of fucceeding, have attempted 
many times to tranfmit the Odours, as well as the 
Powers of Drugs clofed (carefuly) in Tubes or 
Spheres of Glafs, by ele&rizing them : Ail thefe have 
attempted to purge a Number of Perfons; and, ac- 
cording to the Accounts they gave me, have never 
gained their Point ; or the little Succefs they had, 
appeared too equivocal to draw therefrom Confe- 
quences conformable to thofe M. Pivati had be- 
lieved to have feen in his Experiments. 
I am now then, as it were, certain of what I be- 
gan to believe aft Year, when I printed my Treatife, 
intituled, Recherches fur les Caufes particulieres 
des Phcenomenes Eleffriques :■ l am, I fay, as it 
were certain, that M. Pivati has been deceived by 
fome Circumftance to which he had not given fuf- 
ficient Attention 5 and what makes me believe it 
more than ever is, that he allured me himfelf, that 
this Transfufion ot Odours, and of Drugs, through 
D d d 2 ele&rized 
* See thefe Trarf. No. 476. p. 479. C. M, 
