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like 5 becaufe the nervous Fibres are not only Toft, 
flexible, and moift, but alfo becaufe they admit humid 
Nourifhment, and a Fluid drops from them ; all which 
Properties require fpungy Poroflties bedew'd with 
fome Liquor. 
XXXII. 
As to the Manner and Caufe of mufcular Motion," 
he allows, that a fpirituous Liquor, which in fome 
Places he calls Subftance , or Faculty , pafles by the 
Nerves from the Brain to the Mufcle j and that fome 
Fluid, proper to the Mufcle, meeting it, fomething 
like a Fermentation or Ebullition is excited, which 
caufes that fuddcn Swelling of the Mufcle. The 
Examples he gives to render this familiar to the Reader, 
are the Spirit of Vitriol poured upon Oil of Tartar, 
or any acid Spirits mix'd with fix’d Salts. Hence we 
fee from whom this Author has been furnifh’d with 
his Opinions concerning mufcular Motion ; viz. the 
Rhombus's from Steno, with a very little Difference; 
and the Fermentation from the memorable Croune'-, 
notwithftanding his being frequently quoted as the 
real Inventer of thefe Notions. 
XXXIII. 
Bernoulli i. The celebrated Bernouilli *, a 1th o' ccfn- 
fefiedly a Follower of Borelli on this Sub- 
ject, as it appears in his own Words, where he fays, 
“ In which (Account of mufcular Motion) I fhall 
“ tread in the Track of the incomparable Job. Ah 
“ phonfus 
* Dijfertatio de Motu MufcuJortim. Vide Proem, 
