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.

by John Freke

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, 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.

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