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SECTION II. 
JOEING convinced that in order to derive 
every poflible advantage from the dis¬ 
covery which is the occafion of my writ- 
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ing, it was neceffary to accumulate fads 
of different kinds, I undertook the fol¬ 
lowing experiments. 
The nerves, the great fprings by which 
all the functions of the animal economy 
are performed, appeared to have the firfl 
claim to my attention. 
As nerves are conductors of a fluid, the 
properties of which are fimilar to that of 
eledricity, tying them, it appeared to me, 
could not prevent its paflage through 
them. In confequence of this reafoning, 
I tied the nerves of feveral frogs, but not 
one of them afforded the phenomena I 
expeCted. M. Fattori, a young man of 
information, obferved to me, that there 
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