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the nerve, I reached the point which 
anfwered to the experiment. 
From this it appears, that this condition 
of the nerves, by which they polfefs the 
power of exciting mufcular motion—this 
life, if I may be allowed the expreffion, 
continues longer in their extremities than 
at their origin. 
But is not their origin that which I 
call their extremities ? Let us leave this 
to be decided by future phyfiologifts. 
Since eledrical difcharges, and the 
movements of which we have been fpeaIc¬ 
ing, take place by means of tw r o metals 
of a different nature, one might be tempted 
to imagine, that- it is the metal itfelf 
which affords the eledricity. 
This remark, or rather objedion, has 
been made by many. In anfwer to it, I 
firft obferved, that at two or three differ¬ 
ent times I had produced fhocks by being 
myfelf the condudor. I like wife afferted, 
that 
