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cle&rized Glafs Veflels, had never manitefted itfelf 
to him bat once or twice dire&ly j I mean by a fen- 
fible Diminution of Bulk, and by fuch Emanations 
as the Smell was capable of perceiving. 
Since I have underftood Italian, I have been fur- 
prifed not only to find this Confeflion in a Letter 
printed at Lucca *, but alfo to fee, that it had not had 
all the Effect it ought to have had upon the Minds 
of thofe, who have been in a Situation to be in- 
ftructed : For my own Parr, had I known it earlier, 
I might have faved myfelf a great Part of the Trouble 
I have taken in verifying the Fa£t $ and l am aftonifh- 
ed, that they fhould be defirous of building upon 
fuch very {lender Foundations. 
It is however upon this pretended Tranfmiflion, 
and with a glafs Tube, which was cracked from one 
End to the other , as M. Pivati tells you himfelffj 
it is, I fay, upon this Fa£t, than which, in my 
Opinion, nothing can be lefs certain, that they have 
eflablifhed the Ufe and Effe&s of lined Tubes , of 
which they are willing to abate nothing. But how 
can we reconcile thefe two things, the almofl never 
failing Operation of lined Tubes , upon fo many 
Diftempcrs which are faid to have been cured, or 
confiderably relieved, on one Parr, and on the other 
the Tranfmiflion fo very feldom to be perceived of 
the Odours of the Drugs inclofed in thofe Glaffes, 
with 
* Page 28. Utt tale dileguamento fuccedutomi in un cylindro , non 
mi e pot veramente fucceduto in altri , di quali mi fon fervtto per vane 
guarigioni. 
-j- Si con/umo la materia interna a fegno , c he ft ridujfe non of! ante Fejfere 
quaji ermetic ament e ferato alia fotti/iezza di un delicato fogtio di carta , 
e come un capo morto, cbe ne tenea piu odore ni fapore, e fino il vetro 
medefimo quafi confunto ft apri da fe Jlejfo in piu fijfure per longo. 
