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h. Gray made, in confequence of the Experiment 
of a Boy fu (pended on Hair Lines 5 viz* “ Hereby 
<£ we fee, that Animals receive a greater Quantity of 
u elebtric Effluvia *.f And, with the Leave of a 
very f learned Perfon, and an honourable Member of 
the- lame Society, I will add his Remark on the faid 
Experiment/ .“ 'It is (fays he) verygobfervable, that 
the Communication of Eledriciry is much greater 
thio’ animal than thro’ inanimate Bodies: that is. 
The elaftic Fluid, palling thro’ thefe, meets with 
a greater Quantity of the fame Matter in them 
than in the other; the foil'd animal Fibres being 
tC more adapted to receive it.” And, a little alter, 
he adds thefe encouraging Words;— “ Perhaps the 
t( Profecution of fuch Trials upon living Creatures 
“ may, in time, make us more acquainted with the 
<l Laws and A&ions of this impetuous Part (as Hip~ 
u pocrates calls it **) viz- the nervous Fluid in the 
et animal Machine. It a res accendunt lumina 
cc rebus •f-'f*.” 
In the late Edition of the Works of the Honour- 
able Mr. Boyle , Vol. V. Bage 646. is a Letter from 
Mr. Clayton, dated 'June 23. 1684. at James City in 
Virginia ; in which he gives Mr. Boyle an Account 
of a ftrange Accident (as he calls it) ; and adds, that 
he had inclofed the very Paper Colonel Btigges gave 
him of if, under his own Hand and Name, to atteft 
the Truth j and that the fame was alfo alferted to 
him 
* Phil. Tranf. N*. 417. 
of Poifons, Introdutt. p. 38, 39. 
lib. vi. § 8, Tec' ogfwn* cduAta. 
f Dr. Mead Meehan. Account 
Ed. 3d. ** Hipp. Epidem. 
ff Lucret. lib. i. ver. mo. 
