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pared, the movements laft an hour, and 
fometimes longer. Does this excitement 
fupport life, inftead of deftroying it ? 
Experiment XVI, 
In a dog, whilft one of the fore legs 
gave ftrong fhocks, the other, hitherto 
untouched, was prepared, but did not ex¬ 
hibit the lead: motion. 
Experiment XVII. 
I prepared a fore leg of two rabbits, 
and twenty minutes after examined the 
others, but it was not poffible to procure 
the ordinary appearances. The firft pre¬ 
pared legs, although they had been much 
excited, gave, notwithffcanding, very fen- 
iible fhocks. 
In fowls, dogs, and rabbits, I have 
changed the fituation of the coating as 
with the frogs, and, in fome inftances, have 
applied another coating to the mufcles, 
but 
