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hour more, it lay with its legs extended, 

 and all its mufcles almoft incefTantly con- 

 vulled. After 26 hours, it did not difco- 

 ver outwardly any fign of life ; its heart 

 alone continuing to move feebly for feve- 

 ral hourj, longer. 



EXPER. II. (Two Trials). 



Thirty drops of the folution were 

 poured into the anus of a frog. After 

 an hour and a quarter it cried when 

 touched, and, in a quarter of an hour 

 more, was extended and convulfed. Af- 

 ter two hours and a half it ihewed little 

 outward appearance of life ; and the blood 

 had cenfed intirely from motion in the 

 feet. The heart, however, was found to 

 contradl feebly about 18 times in a mi- 

 nute, and continued to move feveral 

 times in a minute, for eight or nine hours 

 longer. 



EXPER. 



