A treatise on electricity wherein its various phoenomena are accounted for, and the cause of the attraction and gravitation of solids, assigned : To which is added, a short account, how the electrical effluvia act upon the animal frame, and in what disorders the same may probably be applied with success, and in what not / By Francis Penrose.

  • Penrose, Francis, 1718-1798.
Date:
1752
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Credit: A treatise on electricity wherein its various phoenomena are accounted for, and the cause of the attraction and gravitation of solids, assigned : To which is added, a short account, how the electrical effluvia act upon the animal frame, and in what disorders the same may probably be applied with success, and in what not / By Francis Penrose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    T R A EAT O N ELECTRICITY: WHEREIN Its various phenomena are accounted for, and the caufe of the attraction and gravitation of fo« lids, affigned. / TO WHICH IS ADDED, A fhort account, how the electrical effluvia aCt upon the animal frame, and in what diforders the fame may probably be applied with fuc- cefs, and in what not. By FRANCIS PENROSE Surgeon at Bicejier. They who are univerfally allowed the very greateft, and wifeft of men, have been, and ftill are, intent upon the making of observations, and experiments : and furely that mull be in order to fome further end. Thefe would be vain, and wholely ufelefs, were not fome reflections made, fome conclufions drawn, fome theory or hypo- thefis raifed from them. Woodward7s Rate of pkyjick and of difeafes, p. ir OXFORD, Printed at the Theatre for S a c k v i l l e Parke r,£ Bopk- feller at Oxford, and W. Owen, at Homer's Bead, ‘Temple- . Bar, London. M DCC LIE