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after have occafion to remark, that immo¬ 
bility may alfo arife from a vitiated flate 
of the mufcular fibres, although the nerves 
be in a flate proper for conducting elec¬ 
tricity. And we fhall likewife fee that 
the ceffation of the movements frequently 
takes place, although both the nerves and 
the mufcular fibres be in their natural 
flate. 
It is true, in this matter, I only hazard 
conjectures, but there will be found, in 
the account of the experiments and faCts 
I am about to relate, certain obfervations 
which render thefe conjectures far from 
being unreafonable. 
Experiment LXXII. 
Two dogs, in which the brain was 
deeply wounded, died in convulfions. 
One of them gave fhocks, but the other 
remained motionlefs, notwithftanding dif¬ 
ferent coatings and the belt known con¬ 
ductors 
