[ 39 + 1 
h!s Delicacy in choofing ; and which may make him 
fufpcCted of too great Credulity. Would one believe 
with him for Example, that the eleCtric Virtue was 
capable of fetting a Watch a going, which was 
flopped; and, by its means, of regulating its Motion, 
When fo difordered as to be impracticable to be 
done by the Hands of the Workmen*? Would one 
believe with him upon the Faith of a Letter void 
of Authority, and without haying tried it, “ that an 
“ Ounce of Mercury had been entirely evaporated 
“ through the Pores of a Glafs Veflel, with which a 
il Man was electrized, which had made his Skin of 
<c a leaden Colour, and which had been followed 
“ by a copious f Salivation ?” This FaCt, which was 
faid to have been done at Naples, interefting as it is, 
had there made fo little Noife, that I was not able 
to find any Traces of it during my Stay in that City, 
after the printing and publifhing of the Book, in 
which it is cited. 
If any one fhould think fit to fay, that it is from 
Humour, or from fome perfonal Intereft, that I am 
fo obftinate in disbelieving the FaCts publifhed in 
Italy , which are the Subject of this Memoir, I 
flatter myfelf, that fo unjuft an Imputation will make 
no Imprcfiion upon reafonable People, by whom I 
have the Honour of being known, either pcrfonally, 
or by my Writings. Have not I received and pub- 
lifhcd in France all the Wonders in Electricity, 
which 
* RefleJJioni fipebe fopra la medicina ellettrica , p. 103. La fubita 
efpcacia ( della ellettricita ) in dar giujlo movimento alle mojlre. di ore- 
l agio, 0 feme, 0 reflie , 0 ritardanti fanza r medio. 
t Ibid. p. 153. 
