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State of Contra&ion, as long as there was any (ethe- 
real Matter ' flying from the Nerves. 
CXXXIV. 
If we confider in how many different Directions 
the mufcular Fibres of the Heart run, how much 
they are corrugated, thickened, and fwelled, when 
fully contracted, and how ftrong and uniform the 
Preffure mufl: be in their greateft Degree of Aftion 5 
it may not perhaps appear unreafonable to think that 
the Extremities of the Nerves, which are inferted 
into every Fibre, and which are extremely fmall 
and tender, may be preffed upon and fqueezed, fo 
as to prevent the Influx of the <^/Ether, till the 
Preflure is abated, or till the Fibres are extended 
again to their ufual Lengths. 
cxxxv. 
What feems to evince the Reafonablenefs of this 
Suppofition is the Nature of the Shaking 'Talfeyi 
where the voluntary Mufcles immediately become 
involuntary ones, fo far at leaft, as to be alternately 
contracted and relaxed without the Confent or Di- 
rection of the Mind. 
CXXXVI. 
Now this Diftemper we believe to proceed from 
a particular Weaknefs in the Nerves, whereby thofe 
little ReftriCtions in them, which keep the athereal 
Matter within due Bounds, in a State of Health, 
are 
