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place of the incifion, was exhaufted; and Dr Valli 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 *, furnifhes a 

 fact which, I apprehend, may be explained on the fame prin- 

 ciple. 



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* Medical Facls and Obfervations, Art. xx. p. 218. 



