Mr. Muschenbroeck, in a letter to Mr. Reaumur, written soon after the Leyden discovery, says; that he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath; and was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror. He adds, he would not take a second shock for the kingdom of France. Mr. Allamand who tried the experiment with a common beer glass, affirmed, that he lost the use of his breath for some moments; and then felt so intense a pain along his right arm, that he at first apprehended ill consequences from it, though it soon after went off without any inconvenience. But the terror of Mr. Winckler of Leipsic exceeded that of all the rest. The first time he tried the Leyden experiment, he says, he found great convulsions by it in his whole body: and that it put his blood into great agitation; so that he was afraid of an ardent fever, and was obliged to use refrigerating medicines. He also felt a heaviness in his head, as if a stone lay upon it. Twice, he says, it gave him a bleeding at the nose, to which he was not inclined; and that his wife (whose curiosity, it seems, was greater than her fears) received the shock only twice, and found herself so weak, that she could hardly walk; and that a week after, upon recovering courage to receive another shock, she bled at the nose after taking it only once. Mr. Boze, with other philosophers were, however, far from participating in the cowardice of the professor of Leipsic. They gathered resolution to receive a number of electric shocks, as strong as they could be given. Mr. Boze, indeed, as Dr. Priestley remarks, “with a heroism worthy of Empedocles, wished he might die by the electric shock, that the account of his death might furnish an article for the memoirs of the French academy of sciences. But, adds the same author, it is not given to every electrician to die the death of the justly envied Richman.”