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gentlemen have confirmed to me the truth
of the story.—She was uncommonly sen-
sible of every change of weather, and had
her electrical feelings strongest in a clear
day, or during the passage of thunder-
clouds, when the air is known to be replete
with that fluid. Her case, like most others
which the doctors can make nothing of, was
decided to be a nervous one; for the real
meaning of that term I take to be only,
that the physician does not understand what
it is.
Two gentlemen of Geneva had a short
experience of the same sort of complaint,
though st 111 in a much superior degree.—
ProfesTor Saussure and young Mr. Jalabert,
when travelling over one of the high Alps,
were caught amongst thunder-clouds ; and
to their utter astonifliment, found their bo-
dies so full of electrical fire, that sponta-
neous siashes darted from their fingers with
a crackling noise, and the same kind of sen-
sation
gentlemen have confirmed to me the truth
of the story.—She was uncommonly sen-
sible of every change of weather, and had
her electrical feelings strongest in a clear
day, or during the passage of thunder-
clouds, when the air is known to be replete
with that fluid. Her case, like most others
which the doctors can make nothing of, was
decided to be a nervous one; for the real
meaning of that term I take to be only,
that the physician does not understand what
it is.
Two gentlemen of Geneva had a short
experience of the same sort of complaint,
though st 111 in a much superior degree.—
ProfesTor Saussure and young Mr. Jalabert,
when travelling over one of the high Alps,
were caught amongst thunder-clouds ; and
to their utter astonifliment, found their bo-
dies so full of electrical fire, that sponta-
neous siashes darted from their fingers with
a crackling noise, and the same kind of sen-
sation