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with a contrary state of things in which, after what has 

 been said, the only conclusion seems to be that the 

 natural electricity has failed in some great nerve centre 

 for want of arterial blood, and that the instantaneous 

 currents of high tension which of necessity attend upon 

 this failure are the immediate agents in exaggerating 

 vital motion as it is exaggerated in these cases. 



This, broadly stated, is the conclusion to which I am 

 compelled to come. Everything as it seems to me, is in 

 flat contradiction to the current doctrine of vital motion : 

 everything, as it seems to me, tends to bring phenomena 

 which have been regarded as exclusively vital under 

 the dominion of physical law to transmute vital motion 

 into what proves to be nothing more than a mere mode 

 of physical motion. 



