An essay on electricity. Explaining the theory and practice of that useful science, and the mode of applying it to medical purposes : with an essay on magnetism / by George Adams.

  • Adams, George, 1750-1795.
Date:
1785
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Credit: An essay on electricity. Explaining the theory and practice of that useful science, and the mode of applying it to medical purposes : with an essay on magnetism / by George Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. l IT may be eafily perceived by the title of this work, that it is not offered to the public as a finifhed piece on the fubjebt. To treat of the theory and practice of ele&ricity, in the fulleft manner, would require a larger treatile, and employ more time than I can devote to a work of this kind. The fcience of ele&ricity is now generally acknowledged to be ufeful and important; and there is great reafon to think, that at a future period it will be looked up to as the fource from whence the principles and properties of natural philofophy muft be derived; its utility to man will not be inferior to its dignity as a fcience. I have