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it is with no final 1 pain I obfcrve, that 
aa Italian author, for whom I entertain 
fentiments of regard, has adopted this 
opinion, and has even gone fo far as to 
declare himfelf an adverfary of this bril¬ 
liant doctrine. 
Electricity, fays he, does not perform 
any function in the bodies of animals, 
and the doCtrine of mufcular motion ftill 
remains as obfcure as it was before the 
difcovery of the ProfefTor of Bologna. 
The efFedts attributed to animal electri¬ 
city are, agreeably to his manner of think¬ 
ing, only owing to common electricity. 
This theory is founded upon an imagi¬ 
nary datum, viz. the circulation of the 
eleCtricity of metals. 
The author, with much confidence, 
promifes to demonfirate this at a future 
period. May we not be allowed to en¬ 
quire, if it would not have been more ad- 
vifeable to have fet oft' with this faCt, 
rather 
