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to diminifh, the experiment does not fuc- 
ceed, or at leaft only in an irnperfeCt 
manner. 
Experiment CXVII. 
I placed membranes in the lame manner 
with the mufcle and tendon, and found 
they were conductors. 
Experiment CXVIII. 
I prepared the blood-veffels of the pof- 
terior extremities of a frog, and managed 
the coating in fuch a way as to prevent it 
touching the nerves which accompanied 
the veffels. 
When the communication was efla- 
blifhed between the veffels and the muffles, 
by means of a conductor, the extremities 
/ . 
became convulfed. 
Experiment CXIX. 
I divide] the nerves, and feparated them 
from the veffels; on effablifhing again the 
communi- 
