The subtil medium prov'd; or, that wonderful power of nature ... conjectur'd by the most ancient and remarkable philosophers, which they call'd sometimes æther, but oftener elementary fire, verify'd. Shewing that all the distinguishing and essential qualities ascrib'd to æther ... are to be found in electrical fire ... Giving an account of the progress and several gradations of electricity. From those ancient times to the present ... / by R. Lovett.

Richard Lovett

Date:: 1756

Credit: The subtil medium prov'd; or, that wonderful power of nature ... conjectur'd by the most ancient and remarkable philosophers, which they call'd sometimes æther, but oftener elementary fire, verify'd. Shewing that all the distinguishing and essential qualities ascrib'd to æther ... are to be found in electrical fire ... Giving an account of the progress and several gradations of electricity. From those ancient times to the present ... / by R. Lovett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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If fuch Diforders, when the Obftruction firft began, were to be treated by this Method * from what has been already obferv’d, there don’t appear to be any Doubt of an abfolute Cure. And although, when other Means have been formerly us’d for accelerating the Blood in fome dangerous Cafes of Obftruftions, fuch as Morti¬ fications, £s?c. they have prov’d fo far from reliev¬ ing, that they have very much heighten’d and increas’d the Diforder ; yet this was never found to be the Cafe, even in that particular Diforder; when the Motion of the Fluids has been accele¬ rated by Ele&rifation ; for which Reafon, it may¬ be naturally fuppos’d, that the ele&rical JEther not only accelerates the Motion of the Fluids, but alfo dilates and opens the Pafiages, as well as fe- parates and divides the clogg’d * Particles of the Blood, and other Juices, that fo the Circulation may be again carried on. And, as there are few general Rules without their Exceptions, fo no Doubt but this may be, fometimes, found true here alfo in fome Degree, and it may very poffibly appear from the Effe&s, that the Acceleration of the Fluids may be, fome¬ times, too quick for the Dilatation and Opening of the more folid Parts, and in fuch Cafes it may be fufpected to caufe Pain for the prefent : And this might very probably be the Reafon, that the Gentleman mention’d, Cafe the nth, complain’d of more Pain, though it was attended with no other bad Symptom ; yet this, however, ought to teach us to proceed with the more Caution in violent Pains, particularly thofe of the Head in genera], and of the Ears or Eyes in particular, as being fome of the molt tender Parts; for thus * As at Page 122. t In Burns this Teems to be the Cafe, by much increafing the fain. proceeding.

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