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hind feet, and the creature was fcarcely 

 able to withdraw its legs when the toes 

 were pinched. After three quarters of an 

 hour, the heart contraded but 30 times in 

 a minute, and the motion of the blood in 

 the vefTels of the hind feet was extremely 

 flow, and ceafed altogether after 55 mi- 

 nutes ; at which time the creature was un- 

 able to withdraw its legs from the moft 

 fevere injury, or when the eye ball was 

 fretted with a probe to fhut its eye-lids, 

 which were wide open j and its refpiration 

 had intirely ceafed. 



I now removed the mixture, and wafb- 

 ed the legs in water ; notwithftanding 

 which, it remained infenfible for about an 

 hour and a half longer, although the 

 heart continued the whole lime to vibrate, 

 feebly indeed, about 30 times in a mi- 

 nute. But after this, it began to bend the 

 joints of the hind legs fpcntaneoufly. And, 

 in 40 minutes more, was able to fcramble 

 over the edge of a plate, on which it was 

 laid; yet, till half an hour thereafter, 

 when the heart contraded 40 times in a 



minute. 



