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I HAVE averted, that the nervous fluid 
is the fame with electricity, and with 
good reafonj for 
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Subftances which conduCl electricity, 
are conductors likewife of the nervous, 
fluid. 
Subftances which are not conductors of 
eledricity, do not conduCt the nervous 
fluid. 
Non-conduCting bodies, which acquire 
by heat the property of conducting elec- 
tricity, preferve it likewife for the nervous 
fluid. 
Cold, at a certain degree, renders water 
a non-conduCtor of electricity, as well as 
of the nervous fluid. 
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