
Full title
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.
Language
en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Thiers Halliwell, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2019-09-30
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1718–1798
An English surgeon and medical writer, he spent much of his career practicing in Bicester, Oxfordshire and writing practical works on disease, chemistry, and electricity. His books show the curiosity of an 18th-century doctor trying to connect new scientific ideas with everyday medical care.
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