An essay to shew the cause of electricity; and why some things are non-electricable : in which is also consider'd its influence in the blasts on human bodies, in the blights on trees, in the damps in mines, and as it may affect the sensitive plant, &c / In a letter to Mr. William Watson. By John Freke.

  • John Freke
Date:
1746
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Credit: An essay to shew the cause of electricity; and why some things are non-electricable : in which is also consider'd its influence in the blasts on human bodies, in the blights on trees, in the damps in mines, and as it may affect the sensitive plant, &c / In a letter to Mr. William Watson. By John Freke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C ^7 ] together, than was intended by the Author of all Uniformity, feeing, by its natural Cohefion, and the infinite Celerity it is Ipirally driven on with, it is no Wonder, in this confined State* if that, which, as Water unconfin’d* would be gentle and beneficent, fhould, with all the Power that be¬ longs to it, break out at the firft Door which is opened lor its Paffage from this tortur’d State. / It is no Wonder, therefore, that all undiforder’d Nature fhould be equally electrify’d : For how is it pofiible to have it otherwife ? fince, if a Perfon Hands on the Ground, and touches but thtCapfula before he touches theBody, the eledt ric Fire Harts through him into the Ground, as fwift as Lightning, and thence into the univerfal lambent Flame, from whence it was taken. E 2 Lightning'