An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists . , or the ancient pliilosopher wlio could never takeoff his clothes without emitting flames of fire.^ Not long after, however, an event occurred that seems to have filledEurope with still greater wonder and awe. It was known as the Leydenexperiment. Professor Musschenbroek, who wrote an account of it toReaumer, can scarcely express in language the agitation and terror into. Fig. 6.—Battery of Leyden Jaks, with Accessokies. which his unheard-of sufferings had thrown him. He had felt the first
An international system of electro-therapeutics : for students, general practitioners, and specialists . , or the ancient pliilosopher wlio could never takeoff his clothes without emitting flames of fire.^ Not long after, however, an event occurred that seems to have filledEurope with still greater wonder and awe. It was known as the Leydenexperiment. Professor Musschenbroek, who wrote an account of it toReaumer, can scarcely express in language the agitation and terror into. Fig. 6.—Battery of Leyden Jaks, with Accessokies. which his unheard-of sufferings had thrown him. He had felt the firstshock of electricity prepared by human hands, and not the whole king-dom of France, he declared, could induce him to take another. He hadbeen struck in the arms, shoulders, and breast, and two days elapsedbefore he recovered from the mysterious blow. The professor, in fact,had invented the Leyden jar. He had been endeavoring for some timeto inclose electricity in a safe receptacle, from which it could not escape,except with his permission, and at length succeeded in imprisoning thegenie in a glass vessel partly filled with water. Suddenly he formed a Grey seems to have anticipated the experiment. Priestleys Hist. Elect., i, p. 66. 13 A-194 BLEYER. connection between the two surfaces of the jar.^ The imprisoned elec-tricity sprang througli his body and sliook him with a wild added its terrors to the unseen assault; his imagination wasfilled with an
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