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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    O N ELECTRICITY. \ 1 THE many furprifing effects of electri¬ city , and the great cures performed by it, one would imagine, fhould awa¬ ken the attention of all philofophers and phyficians ; but as thefe cures have been ef¬ fected by random experiments, every body has admired, but no body feems to have confidered how, or by what means, they were performed. Whence Notwithftanding all thefe furprifing pheno¬ mena, from which many have entertained hopes of a great addition to the healing art; yet not one tolerable account has been given, how, or from what caufe, thefe phenomena proceeded; except what has been done by Mr. Freke, furgeon to Bartholomew hofpital; whofe admirable piece fhews the great penetration of its worthy author, with whom I fhall join in thinking cc it may pof- c< fibly be the beginning of much good*” One