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 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, F.R.S.
By John Freke, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital, London , F.R.S.
Naturam expellas furcâ, tamen usque recurret.
The Second Edition: With an APPENDIX.
LONDON:
Printed for W. Innys, in Pater-noster Row .
MDCCXLVI.
SIR ,