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A Treatise on Electricity Wherein its various phænomena are accounted for, and the cause of the attraction and gravitation of solids, assigned. To which is added, a short account, how the electrical effluvia act upon the animal frame, and in what disorders the same may probably be applied with success, and in what not.

Penrose, Francis, 1718-1798

Electricity -- Early works to 1850 Electrotherapeutics -- Early works to 1800

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