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The velocity of the nervous fluid is, as 
far as we can calculate, the fame with that 
of electricity. 
The obftacles, which the nerves under 
certain circumftances oppofe to electricity, 
they prefent likewife to the nervous fluid. 
Attraction is a property of the eleCtric 
fluid, and this attraction has been dif- 
covered in the nervous fluid. 
We here fee the greateft analogy be¬ 
tween thefe fluids; nay, I may even add, 
the characters of their identity. 
As to what regards the attraction, I may 
perhaps have been deceived in my experi¬ 
ments, or have fancied what did not exift. 
But though I may miftrufl: my own 
obfervation on this point, yet the Com¬ 
mittee of the Academy of Sciences at 
Paris, with whom I repeated the experi¬ 
ments upon animal electricity, and who 
were witnefles to the attraction in a lefs 
equivocal manner than I was, could not 
eaiiiy be miftaken. They 
