n 2 A Courfe of Experiments 



EXPERIMENT IL 



Cutting a Polype in two Pieces^ 

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yfPRIL, I, 1743. 1 cut a Dutch 



•^-* Polype^ which had two young Ones 

 hanging to it, quite through its Body, a Httle 

 nearer the Head than where either of the 

 young Ones came out. 



I placed it in the Palm of my Hand, in 

 a Drop of Water, and waiting till it extend- 

 ed, flipped the Point of my Sciflars under 

 the Body, and divided it a little above the 

 upper young One, where the crofs Line de- 

 fcribes it in the Figure. 



I then put each Part into a feparate 

 Glafs of Water, and obfervedThat with the 

 Head to it (hewed a confiderable Senfe of 

 Pain, by a Kind of trembling and convulfive 

 Motion in the Piece of Body thereto belong- 

 ing. The other Half contracted, and lay 

 without any ^ort of Motion, from fix iu 

 the Evening, when it was cut, till the Tim^ 

 I went to Bed. 



April, 



