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Then follow my Experiments, many of 
which are analogous to thofe of the ProfeJJbr 
of Bologna, and a great n umber entirely ne w* 
Many of thefe experiments are not in the 
Journal de Bhyjique, and the others, which 
are only announced in this Journal, are here 
treated in detail. In the relation of thefe 
faCls, I have often had occafon to enter 
into phyfiological and pathological reflections. 
After that, I have endeavoured to demon* 
frate the identity of the nervous fluid with 
the matter of eleClricity, and have fupported 
this doClrine by the experiments of others by 
my own, and by analogy. 
In order that electricity be in a condition 
for aClion, it mufl exifl in two contraryfates* 
This circumflance prefents a flrong diffi¬ 
culty, viz.*—How is itpoflible that electricity 
can be condenfed in a body, all the parts of 
which have the property of conducting this 
fluid F In reply to this I obferved, that the 
animal is furnifhed with particular powers 
and 
