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With different views, I have formerly 
famifhed animals, and obferved they all 
died quietly. In thefe cafes, do the ani¬ 
mals retain any refiduum of life ? To 
give a proper folution to this query, we 
muft have recourfe to experiment, as con¬ 
jecture only leads to error. 
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Experiment CX. 
Several rabbits were fhut up in a room 
without any kind of food. Some of them 
died in two days, others in three, and 
iome in three days and a half. 
I was able to examine fome of them at 
the moment of their death. They did not 
afford any figp of vitality. This appeared to 
me extraordinary, inafmuch as the mufcles 
did not exhibit any perceptible change. 
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Experiment CXI. 
Fowls, although of a very different 
conftitution from rabbits, are pot capable 
of 
