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© fucceeded in finding either mufcle, tendon, or 
“ cartilage, deftined for that office. ‘The fluid 
¢ iffues in greater quantity on amputation of the 
* head, in lefs, on mutilations of the tail or foot, 
‘ and it is mixed with a vifcous tenacious matter. 
* The feparated horns exhibit no figns of life, or 
' they are very fhort and feeble. It is not fo with 
* the head: for, fix or feven minutes after am- 
¢ putation, it difplays unequivocal fenfibility when 
‘irritated. Soon after decapitation, the {nails 
* contract and retire into the fhell, but fome re- 
“turn ina little. In the place of amputation, now 
* much contracted, a {mall white mark appears ; 
* then they travel about as vivacious as if the 
* head had not been cut off. 
© The facility of motion and livelinefs of {nails 
‘ would perhaps induce one to think the head 
* had not been properly fevered, and this might 
‘in general be adopted as an indifputable cer- 
‘tainty. But every doubt is difpelled by the 
‘ moft fcrupulous diffeGtion. In the feparated 
* head, we behold the horns, jaws, teeth, tongue, 
* and its appendages, all the nerves, mufcles, and 
“bridles, the extremity of the cefophagus, the 
* falival ducts, the prepuce, and alfo the vagina. 
‘Thus there is no queftion that the complete 
* head has been cut off. 
< All the {nails foon contraét and retire within 
* their dwellings. There they form that white 
© tenacious 
