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LXX. 
The learned Dr. Mead * thinks no Regard ought 
to be had to the immechanical Notions of thofe 
Authors, who imagine that there is no fuch thing 
as a nervous Fluid in an animal Body j and that muf- 
cular Motion and Senfation are performed only by 
the Vibrations of the Fibres of the Nerves, without 
the Intervention of any fpirituous Fluid. 
LXXI. 
The furprifing Difcoveries which have been made 
of late Years, by a Variety of Experiments upon 
Eledricity, do in fome meafure give us an Idea of 
the great Subtilty and Velocity of the nervous Fluid. 
I have been informed by the ingenious Mr. Watfon , 
a worthy Member of this Society , that the Swiftnefs 
of the eledrical Effluvia is prodigious 5 that one 
Stroke of his Hand down the Tube, when well 
eledrified, was felt as foon as his Hand could be 
at the Bottom of the Tube, through five Men 
{landing upon eledrical Cakes, and communicating 
with each other by a Cane, Sword, or any other 
Non-eledric. 
LXX II. 
Hence it follows, that if a Tube could be always 
excited, and was always to be applied to the End of 
a 
? Introdudlon to his EfTays on Poifons, Edit , 3. 
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