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by all the parts of the body : the mufcles, 
tendons, memhranes, veffels, bones them- 
felves, and the nerves, are condudors of 
this fluid. Thus their argument is of no 
weight, as it does not obviate the difficulty 
they raife. 
The following experiments will demon- 
ft rate what I have faid refpeding the con¬ 
cluding power of parts. 
Experiment CXVI. 
1 detached a mufcle with its tendon from 
a frog. I placed the tendon upon a piece 
of filver coin, and the mufcle upon the 
thigh of another frog, the crural nerves of 
which were prepared. This eftablifhed a 
communication between the money and 
the frog. I then touched the coating and 
the money with the exciter, and the frog 
became convulfed. The fame thing took 
place equally well when I made ufe of the 
tendon alone. When the vitality begins 
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