An essay on electricity. Explaining the theory and practice of that useful science, and the mode of applying it to medical purposes : with an essay on magnetism / by George Adams.

  • Adams, George, 1750-1795.
Date:
1785
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Credit: An essay on electricity. Explaining the theory and practice of that useful science, and the mode of applying it to medical purposes : with an essay on magnetism / by George Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tion only, of thofe phoenomena which nature prefented to their fenfes, in the ordinary courfe of her operations; hence near two thoufand years elapled, before any addition was made to the little which was known to Theophraftus, and this branch of natural hiftory remained un- cultivated, till the happy period arrived, when the philofopher was emancipated from the chains of hypothetic reafoning, and the uncertainties of vague conjecture. The exiftence of this fubtle, and in moft cafes invifible, power, was then traced, and many of its properties developed; its agency was difcovered to be univerfal, and its extent unlimited. Electricity has been dignified in a peculiar manner, by engaging the attention of the philo- fophic hiftorian; who, by delineating the gra- dual progrefs of its difcoveries, defcribing the different theories which have been invented to account for its effects, and pointing out the de- siderata which flill remain to be explored, has contributed in a high degree, to enlarge the boundaries of electricity, and to encreafe the number of thofe who cultivate it. Since the publication of Dr. Prieflley’s hif- tory, the electrical apparatus has been confider- sibly augmented, and many new experiments have