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...press conference at week's end, Baker claimed publicly for the first time that Ford was over the top, with 1,135 delegates favoring him on the first ballot at the convention. But that margin, which the Reagan forces continued to dispute, was hardly decisive in the fluid situation. Baker released the names of 16 delegates not previously counted by him in the Ford totals, notably 15 Hawaii delegates. Many delegate counters had already credited Ford with several of these votes. The fact that the Ford planners had not yet released the names of all their claimed delegates...
...George III last January, dissected male and female rays to analyze "the peculiar organs by which that animal produces so extraordinary an effect." The two organs, on either side of the cranium and gills, are about 5 inches long and consist of more than 400 tiny vertical columns of fluid. Three large nerves connect the organs to the brain. Although Hunter is not sure how the shocks are created, he asserts that "the will of the animal does absolutely control the electric powers of its body...
...William Bryant of Trenton performed tests on a torpedo of Surinam and proved that it could send a shock "through metallic substances, like an old sword blade," but when the sword was "armed with sealing wax, the electric fluid would not pass...
Mesmer, 42, studied at the University of Vienna, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation On the Influence of the Planets. He argued that celestial bodies exert a gravitational force on an invisible magnetic fluid that exists in all living organisms. Some people fall ill because they are deficient in this fluid, Mesmer says, but can be cured by a transfer of fluid from another body...
...heavy drapes accompanied by gentle harmonies from a hidden orchestra (a noted patron of music, Mesmer has commissioned an opera, Bastien und Bastienne, from a local prodigy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). Mesmer then installs up to 30 patients around a tub equipped with magnetic rods for the transfer of the fluid. In recent weeks, he has stopped using magnets and now says he can transfer the fluid through his own hands...