. Practical electricity in medicine and surgery. Figs. 12 and 13.—Leyden Jars. tial which can be maintained between the outside and insideof the jar; it is also limited by the leakage which takes placebetween the inside and outside tin-foil over the surface of theglass. Glass, though usually an insulator, conducts fairly wellin damp weather, when the electro-motive force is very great. When we have to employ very high electro-motive forces,we join a number of Leyden jars together by connecting the

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