- ANIMAL ELECTRICITY. 239 
place of the incifion, was exhaufted; and Dr Vatu himfelf, 
by obferving, that, after the electricity, as he calls it, of a 
limb is exhaufted, if the coating of a nerve be moved higher 
up, the action of the mufcles may be renewed *, furnithes a 
fa&t which, I apprehend, may be explained on the fame prin- 
ciple. 
XI. 
* Medical Faéts and Obfervations, Art, xx. p- 218, 
